Essays Tagged: "software companies"
History of peer-to-peer file sharing. Technology to prevent it, and the future of it.
g closer and closer to putting these new companies out of business. Record companies are looking to software companies to beat these file sharing organizations at their own game, creating software tha ... rdware was in place it was just a matter of creating the vision of peer-to-peer connections and the software to implement it. This is where Napster made its fame. Napster focused its attention on shar ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Piracy
d is accused of allowingpeople the opportunity to download (get) commercial and beta (orcommercial) software versions. I feel that the RCMP should notcharge people that are linked to computer piracy, ... I feel that the RCMP should notcharge people that are linked to computer piracy, because thepirated software offers valuable opportunity to programmers andusers. Also, revenue lost to the large softwa ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Software Piracy and it’s Effects
ause not much is done to enforce these law. Also some countries of the world have no Copyright laws.Software Piracy is a breach of a copyright law as one copies data contained on the medium on to anot ... ne copies data contained on the medium on to another medium without the consent of the owner of the Software. When one buy a software one buys not the software content and therefore it isn't ones prop ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Hackers versus Business and Financial Institution Computers: Who will win the battle?
ch a hacker before he or she (yes, women are hackers too) is finished wreaking havoc on their prey. Software companies and large corporations spend billions of dollars defending themselves and others ... ved with providing adequate security as well as the remanufacturing of destroyed computer hardware, software, and data.In Germany, Noris Verbraucherbank was attacked by a hacker that stole bank access ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics
Unix.
After the deregulation of the phone companies in the 1980's UNIX was licensed to many hardware and software companies, which in turn created their own computer architectures and boosted many differen ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The challenge of Implementing Capability Maturity Model (CMM) in Pakistan Software Industry
The Official Process is what books say you are supposed to do". So there are two challenges that a software development firm faces. First, to come up with reliable, efficient and pragmatic Official p ... part of the company's culture i.e. to make the Official process the same as the Actual Process.Many software companies fall face down while trying to force the Official Process - so much so that the O ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The Software Piracy Issue
Software is a major part of our lives, with technology substantially climbing at a large rate. Softw ... ing at a large rate. Software can be anything from operating systems, email handlers to games. Free software is anything but good for the consumer or developer. It consists in many different forms: tr ... e and Piracy. Unlike more physical products such as hardware, modern advance technology has allowed software to be duplicated with almost zero effort or cost (piracy). This causes the problem to wides ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Napster Case Study
plications for the music industry.II. Bodya. The decision makers such as music companies, MP3 software companies, retailers, artists, and consumers expressed their views pertaining to the functi ... upport given by the big five music companies for the publicity to their artistic works. The Napster software solved the problems of the music enthusiasts and the artists. However, the free downloading ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > E-commerce
Do the media and information industries "govern" communities?
pyright piracy has become a major issue to control the strategies of entertainment, multimedia, and software companies (Nick Smith, 2000, pg. 24). For example, in 7 June, 2007, Kuching branch of the M ... s of a Kuching based business services solutions provider on suspicion of using infringing computer software belonging to members of BSA which is Adobe and Autodesk. It founds more than 83 copies of s ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
"GDP in Ireland and Bolivia"-written in a Macroeconomics class
country. It consisted of 8 years and $750 million aimed at promoting research and development. Many software companies benefited from this. Microsoft, Dell, and Oracle are among the many countries tha ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics
Computer Viruses
of the type you have encountered or will encounter either purposely or on accident, there is help. Software companies have been and will continue to be hard at work writing virus protection software ... warning and leave a very distinctive path of destruction. Due to this devistation time after time, software companies and huge corporations were given no other alternatives but to fund the developmen ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
File “Sharing”
ical practice. Programs such as Kazaa harm many more people than just musical artists. Kazaa harms, software companies, record companies, authors, broadcasters, film/video makers just to name a few. I ... the programs that allow file sharing. Roughly half of a billion people have downloaded file sharing software. Clearly, file sharing in the short term maximizes happiness for the most. However, if one ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
File “Sharing”
ical practice. Programs such as Kazaa harm many more people than just musical artists. Kazaa harms, software companies, record companies, authors, broadcasters, film/video makers just to name a few. I ... the programs that allow file sharing. Roughly half of a billion people have downloaded file sharing software. Clearly, file sharing in the short term maximizes happiness for the most. However, if one ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies