Sunday, 5 June 2011
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Digital Economy Act
The Act gives Ofcom the responsibility of enforcing ISPs' obligations. A fine of up to £250,000 can be levied on those in contravention; that limit can be raised by the Secretary of State with Parliament's consent.
The Act also allows the Secretary of State to define, with the consent of Parliament, the "sharing of costs" incurred from the Act's legal processes. The order can require reimbursements to be made by rightsholders and/or ISPs, and in the case of appeals, subscribers.The act also allows people to have their internet slowed down or if they continue stopped completely. The first time you are caught they send you a written warning, then you get a stronger warning and then the third time if you still continue they slow your internet down then if you continue they have the right to stop your internet all together.
Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
key Ideas from The Social Network
Intellectual property theft is one of the themes raised in the movie, as the three harvard students had an idea and told mark the idea and he took that idea, improved it and did it himself. This raises the difficulty of how hard it is to copyright an idea unless you write the idea down.
Another issue raised
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Long Tail theory
The Long Tail theory is about how the niche market can make just as much money as the mass market. e.g when a song first comes out (paparazzi) loads of people would buy it from the shops and then in 5 years or so not so many people might want to but it and so shops would stop selling it. Now you would be able to buy it online from a site like play.com, whereas before you would have had to see if you had any friends who had it that you could buy it off or borrow it from.
Thursday, 10 February 2011
History of the web timeline
- The web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.
- 20%- 25% of the world is using the web.
- 35 million people in britain log onto the web each day. 2 billion people in the world log onto the web each day.
- The original ideologies for the web were based in San Francisco. These ideologies were from the counter culture/ hippie values, which were, free ownership, access, voice and potential.
- The first 'web community' was called 'The well' it was created in 1985 also in San Francisco.
- Email was invented in 1965.
- The first website went online on 6th August 1991.
- The web was originally designed to link documents from one computer to another.
- According to the record industry 95% of music is downloaded illegally.
- £531 million is the estimated loss in revenue from the illegal sharing of film, TV and music.
- 20% of the webs content is created by amateurs.
- Youtube was created in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
- 90% of blogs since 1992 are now dormant.
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