Showing posts with label Week 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 8. Show all posts
Friday, 23 September 2011
Week 8, Task 2
Yes, I own this production I have not used any content that was not produced by myself, as I rather stay away from anything that could get me into trouble for giving the wrong credits or giving the wrong kind of information on what to do with the content. The only problem is music; I am no good with composing and still have to decide whether or not risk it and include some CC available track into my video or leave it without sound.
Week 8, Task 1
It is not illegal to share food or clothes or recipes, why should it be illegal to share software?
Sharing is caring. That is true, it is completely normal and acceptable for friends to share a meal in a restaurant, for a young woman to share clothes with her sister or for cooks to exchange recipes. The difference between this small-scale sharing and the sharing of software across the internet is that while it won't hurt the clothing industry if two sisters share the expensive skirt one of them bought it will hurt the software industry if one user creates a torrent containing an expensive cutting-edge program and then makes it freely available for thousands, potentially millions of other people who have never paid for it. Many hours of work and hundreds of dollars in production costs are wasted this way. Most expensive software has the option for small-scale sharing by offering multiple licenses with one CD (Norton is installable on multiple PCs as is Microsoft Office). However, the price for this is that we can't install the product indefinitely anymore, meaning that, should Microsoft go out of business in a few years Word-files would quickly become useless if the Office line was discontinued.
Sharing is caring. That is true, it is completely normal and acceptable for friends to share a meal in a restaurant, for a young woman to share clothes with her sister or for cooks to exchange recipes. The difference between this small-scale sharing and the sharing of software across the internet is that while it won't hurt the clothing industry if two sisters share the expensive skirt one of them bought it will hurt the software industry if one user creates a torrent containing an expensive cutting-edge program and then makes it freely available for thousands, potentially millions of other people who have never paid for it. Many hours of work and hundreds of dollars in production costs are wasted this way. Most expensive software has the option for small-scale sharing by offering multiple licenses with one CD (Norton is installable on multiple PCs as is Microsoft Office). However, the price for this is that we can't install the product indefinitely anymore, meaning that, should Microsoft go out of business in a few years Word-files would quickly become useless if the Office line was discontinued.
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