Luke Lancaster
Piracy has forever changed the digital landscape, and the innovations and practices adopted by video game developers reflect how producers have responded to this new culture. Control of content has become paramount. New business, distribution and consumption models have been introduced with an online focus and the marked change that has occurred in the industry has been realized as a shift from the single and the local to the many and the global, in concept and execution of design. This article will focus on how and why game developers have incorporated online functionality in the current digital media climate. Specific examples of Digital Rights Management models will be addressed to justify and illustrate the shift towards digital distribution and online content at large. There is new value interplay in effect, in both how games are played and how content is provided. What consumers pay for is radically changed, as is how they pay for it. This article will show that there is a system of covert policing at work - an innovation that protects game developers and a practice that has already taken deep root in the industry.
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Oct 28, 2010
Illegal mp3 Downloading: A Cultural Battle
Jonathan Pippard
The internet has changed the music landscape forever. There was a time, now long past, where music fans would amass great collections of the CDs (or, thinking back even further, vinyl records) produced by their favourite bands and artists. Now those same music fans are more likely to have thousands of mp3 files stored on their computers, and no doubt most of them would have been downloaded illegally and without the artist’s permission. Most people are well aware of controversial exploits of file sharing services such a Napster and Kazaa, but less well known is where the fight against illegal music downloading goes from here. With record companies and individual artists constantly seeking ways to stem the flow of illegal mp3 sharing in order regain lost profits; has this cyber trend become unstoppable? This article will discuss the future of mp3 downloading considering impact of popular pay-per-download music site such as iTunes and Beatport, the creative efforts of bands such as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails to curb the illegal downloading of their music, as well as the decision of the French government to actively cut down illegal downloading by cutting off the internet of repeat offenders as ways to combat the effects of file sharing sites.
The internet has changed the music landscape forever. There was a time, now long past, where music fans would amass great collections of the CDs (or, thinking back even further, vinyl records) produced by their favourite bands and artists. Now those same music fans are more likely to have thousands of mp3 files stored on their computers, and no doubt most of them would have been downloaded illegally and without the artist’s permission. Most people are well aware of controversial exploits of file sharing services such a Napster and Kazaa, but less well known is where the fight against illegal music downloading goes from here. With record companies and individual artists constantly seeking ways to stem the flow of illegal mp3 sharing in order regain lost profits; has this cyber trend become unstoppable? This article will discuss the future of mp3 downloading considering impact of popular pay-per-download music site such as iTunes and Beatport, the creative efforts of bands such as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails to curb the illegal downloading of their music, as well as the decision of the French government to actively cut down illegal downloading by cutting off the internet of repeat offenders as ways to combat the effects of file sharing sites.
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