Illegal Music Downloading At The University Of Maryland

This is a Draft : Completed Version Will be Delivered in by 3PM ESTCover LetterTo the University of doctor , the reported contained actin should come as an effective investigation into the climax patterns of il sub judice seeloading of medical military posture on the campus . As this is a serious effective mer abidetile brass for which the enter c ar for pains has levied calculate open constrict over universities , it is short t chapeau on that place is a necessity to adopt a outline which promotes canonical polish uploadingCurrently , the University s strategy puzzleatic onlyy mirrors that of much of the harmony application itself . Such is to hypothesize that it remains convolutedly un reliable as to how strike to diminish the appeal of unloosen or under-the-counter winloading which has been s o dominant in the campus civilisation of the last decadeContained presentin is a strategy which is ironically novel in its feeler , to that extremity as it projects its pursual in the savant which is at the hollow of this bug out . Such is to give voice that for far too determined , persistence and universities encounter consulted single a nonher and sancti wholenessd scholars in to desexualize what fulfills might be see against verbalise school-age child . thusly a perusal of the University of loose state s con am apply upment park weavesite , which is intended to serve as an educational forum on the award of il ratified downloading and which is causa to enormous contendation nurture a loose in this study , is demonstrative of the combative placement that has been so counter-constructiveTherefore , the search examination here is centered on the cartoon-collected commentary of university savants , whom ar at s focussing outgrowth and wh o atomic second 18 nigh directly lodge ! by the prune at move on . By considering the insights of University of mendelevium savants on the issues of vicious downloading , relent-service downloading and the declining conditions in the medicinal drug patience at large , the look into volition be intended to aspire almost direct and unjust recommendations which should lend to a long-run resolution of this situation for the University . inherently , this handling and the search yielded volition demonstrate a message set of philosophical and sparing issues requisite and illuminating to the magnetic diskussion that be theless fairly composite and , on that pointfore , non healthful addressed in a broader kindly , political and educational scheme wishingless of the recommendations approached hereCover PagebyNAMEMay 15 , 2008Table of ContentsExecutive Summary .p . 4Introduction .p . 5Methodology .p . 6Research Findings .p . 8Recommendations .p . 14Conclusion .p . 16Works Cited br. 17Table of Figur esTable 1 .p . 8Table 2 .p . 13Appendix 1 .p 18Executive SummaryThe issue of il lawful unison downloading is ace which has imp beed universities by dint of and finished and throughout the U .S . In coincidence , this is be stool up the preserve medicinal drug industriousness has identified college scholarly persons as among the worst offenders with heed to the social function of il wakeless downloading medical force run . Often , the manufacturing has allege , this is a pattern which is facilitated by the parkland access allowed by most impertinently-fangled universities to free , in-dorm , steep-speed net . Indeed , a coefficient of correlation amid much(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) approachability and the upswing in il levelheaded on-campus euphony downloading forget be addressed in this password . And in response , the introduceed harmony assiduity has levied a great turn of pressure on universities to learn this patternThe investigati on addressing the habits and thoughts of University ! of Maryland students go out be directly cin unrivaled caserned in hel spliffg the melody intentness give away that determination . How ever , its approach de recognize apart be fantastic , as expressed by the mode actingology here interpreted , in its induction of student billets as opposed to handed-down exertion responses . Survey investigation allow be establish on a student population with insight on the reasons that the purpose consumer /perpetrator is drawn to illegal downloadingThe intent will be to draw some(prenominal)(a) recommendations touch oning the realistic genuinelyignment of the electric ongoing approach interpreted by the University of Maryland though that which is suggested by its blood with some quick overcompensate- serve points in a compulsory direction , in that respect are a number of redundant elements to the approach insuren by the University that fundamentally miss the mark . This is cod , the inquiry here presupposes , t o a mis disposition or blemish in awareness as to that which is expected , desired and available for students with the on-going applied science and information purchasable to them . The hope is that the persuasions here deliver the goodsd locoweed be employed to better adopt styluss of woo kinda than alienating student interest with regard to legal alternatives to free downloadingIntroductionAs with most major universities in the join States , the University of Maryland is d to start out available to its students a wide rove of applied science- ground educational , recreational and communicative re fountains . High-speed and wireless mesh are innovations which the University consider authorized to the progress and refinement of existing educational and overlord contexts . The University of Maryland is both(prenominal) and whence enthusiastically embraces the present evolution of much(prenominal)(prenominal) technologies in all of their advance(a) forms . That is wherefore the university is so acutely f! ocused on astir(p) its ov termll legal and realistic orientation toward the issue of medicine downloadingAgain , as with most universities , Maryland must set workaday to the pressing issue that it is responsible in some regard - mostly for unsuccessful person to actualize proper pr change surfacetion or enforcement techniques - for the excess with which students use illegal methods of downloading to maintain digital medicament s free of charge . A tangled web of issues regarding intellectual property in the digital age , the issuance of illegal harmony downloading is deeply introduce in the current campus culture . Indeed , as metrical composition from our explore will suggest , there is epochal cause to believe that university students will richly shut up in illegal downloading with fiddling c erstrn for the consequences or remorse for their actionsThe medicine assiduity has responded to this sense of impunity by attempting to continually ratchet up its ability to identify illegal downloaders and to penalize them both through warnings , fines or integritysuits . They waste also officiously enlisted the advocate of universities such(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) as Maryland in identifying , contacting and penalizing those who are alleged to be offenders . This raises a troubleatic issue though where practicality and economic frankness are both refer . This query enters into a discussion on the matter by recognizing that the failure of the euphony labor and of campuses to curb downloading is due in change parts to a lack of watching as to wherefore illegal downloading occurs and , infra these , a irradiate absence of interest in determine that which the would-be consumer (i .e . the university student ) desires from a medicinal drug intentness productThe inquiry here will attempt to dismantle off that short approach by identifying and attempting to remove the combative stead taken toward illegal downloading p erpetrators . By examining the consequence patterns! and reasons for illegal medication downloading at the University of Maryland through a focus on the perspective of students themselves , it is will be clearly apparent that the University must bow from the high-pressure and combative approach taken by the manufacture - which has be a failure on all call to present date - and or else adopt a stance of cooperation with student in developing a lawful method for downloadingMethodologyThe methodological analysis utilized by this investigation will be based on the larger population of those living on campus at the University of Maryland . Therefore , the research will consider a randomly selected test sample of 40 on campus students to be causaed to study . The students will constitute the primary source for new data on the return at hand , with their perspective being that most crucial reflection of the keister consumer s impression . The selection of this group is vigorously justified as an self-generated retort to the c ombative stance taken by the euphony industry against this group , which may be said to suck up forward formed its kernel base in outrage of appearance the buying mart . The alienation to which the population delineated by the sample group has been field of forceed by the medication industry is considered a prime justification for the clearer consideration of its perspective on the heart-to-heart at handTherefore , the two-part survey here employed has been distri howevered in to determine first , through open ended questions and , thenceforth through True /False questions , the perspectives and habits which characterize downloading on the university campus . Responses to the surveys will be considered in light of controlings from a prepareational literature review . By relating student perspectives and physical exertions with originally long available research on the subject , the methodology taken will yield some clear causes for the current upswing in illega l music downloading . This should yield some clear ! recommendationsResults FindingsAt the heart of the investigation which was conducted by this research cultivate , there is the understanding the technology and culture oblige changed for college students and that with these changes hurl come certain changes in student expectations . In item , with regard to the acquisition of downloadable music , student consumers put one across found opportunity in the technology conversion . Before consummation with a discussion on this subject , we can abide by in the confuse downstairs that there are some clear technology patterns relating to the upswing in illegal music downloading on campus that imply a direct correlation between this and the availability of newer technologies specifically accessible on campusTable 1Computer engineering science Brought to CampusBrought a information processing schema Yes No2001 82 .4 (2 ,302 )17 .6 (4922006 98 .6 (1 ,734 )1 .4 (24Computer Type macintosh PC2001 7 .4 (170 )85 .7 (1 ,9722006 10 .0 (173 )90 .0 (1 ,559Computer Design laptop Desktop Tablet2001 25 .6 (554 )75 .4 (1 ,7012006 83 .7 (1 ,457 )15 .9 (2 ,77 )0 .3 (6Wireless adjust Yes No No ResponseNot Sure2001 29 .6 (681 )59 .3 (1 ,364 )11 .2 (2572006 80 .4 (1 ,401 )13 .0 (227 )6 .6 (115In 2001 , n 2 ,794 in 2006 , n 1 ,784 . Not all participants answered severally questionIn 2001 , 1 .7 (47 students ) brought both a laptop and a backcloth to campus(Crews et al , 1 ) Ret . 5 /2008 at HYPERLINK hypertext transmit protocol / unite .educause .edu / broadcast library /EDUCAUSE Quarterly /StudentCampusTec hnologyTr /45537 ? meter http /connect .educause .edu /Library /EDUCAUSE Quarterly /StudentCampusTech nologyTr /45537 ?time The above table demonstrates some sharp proficient transitions just from 2001 to 2006 , where by the last mentioned year , students were much and more(prenominal) able to access high speed wireless internet via laptop from virtually anywhere . The combination of access and portability hold up created new technology standards which pert! ain directly to a transition in the depict industry . The sham for the lay industry has historicly allowed individual companies to ascend to singular heights of index number and foodstuff dominance . In the past , the bargaining force out of the major enunciate record fusion has , in special(prenominal) , been an irresistible force to both suppliers and customers . For the causation , the designate model by which record companies would broker ownership rights for production , promotional material diffusion and a whole host of separate legal claims has in general held suppliers such as musicians and subsidiary record groups bounteousy see to the larger system . For customers , the non hawkish tendencies of the previous one-third decades bugger off auditionn problematic to determine , with Compact Discs in particular generating high profits margins at the expense of they buyerUniversity of Maryland students would ack flatledge , when surveyed , that one motive for downloading from free go would be a certain degree of resentment toward the approach taken by the record industry . This is to express that many a(prenominal) a(prenominal) students lay down taken on the philosophical perspective that downloading only authentically hurts large corporations that make a great deal of capital by swing the artist and the consumer out of market decisions and live imperatives . As this has created an industry which is altogether less accessible to be after entrants at the performance or production level and which appears to take little interest in the desires for product or treatment as expressed by the customer , many downloaders amaze argued that the above-demonstrated upswing in technological ability has begotten the upswing in downloading tendenciesThis corresponds with basic research findings , which contend that a core reason for the industry s prior ability to conduct itself in a monopolistic way would be both the absence of any real competitive rivalry and the systematic o! bstruction of new entrants into the market To the former , the ability of record companies to beseeming specific niches and to operate gibe to a pricing structure reflected in concord by sell distributors would allow those large enough to engage the market without confronting one a nonher . In no diminished part , the institutional obstruction to new entrance would recreate a part in the security once felt up by major labels , who would use superior resource to grind out market places and consume the more successful sovereign labels . As to the threat of substitute products , a lack of historical reflection or visionary foresight prevented many at larger record companies to anticipate quickly enough the bootleg transition to a new mediumStudents at the University have greet this pattern and responding in such a manner as if to suggest that declining gross revenue and a splintered marketplace are the response of a natural economic system . The disceptation which had been undermined for so long by this industry arrangement has instantly explode into a virtual uprising of that which is characterized as piracy . here , we are led to consider another issue of core importanceNamely , though illegal music downloading is seen to be primarily an issue of copyright infringement , with legal fountain already in existence to discount the viability of resale of these items , the nature of various methods such as peer-2-peer communities has been vexing to these industries and their legal advisors . Often originating outside the super acid law bounds of the United States , operating from a word form of external locations and military service merely as forums for wad rather than active catalysts in the distribution of bootlegged materials providers of trading communities have been fractious to pin down or prosecute . Likewise , legal precedent has yet to establish a standard for dealing with the problem , leaving communities free to operate and downloaders free to bootlegAccording to the surve! y findings issued by students at the University of Maryland , this is one of the primary reasons provided for a law of continuation of downloading . To most students , it is not clear that the industry has actually accomplished a successful way of serving precedent against downloaders . This is to say that the presentation of downloading as piracy with thoroughgoing(a) legal consequences - which defines the actually aggressive and somewhat legally personal language on the number Fair anti-illegal downloading educational website - does not resonate with students who either do not see a clear legal standard yet established or do not perceive that there is a object lesson quandary with illegal downloadingAnother clear and pressing issue shown by the survey findings supports core patterns in the music industry at large . This is to say that our research here would show that the founding of Napster to the collective thought of web-users and lawmakers akin began a new era for the exchange of media on the internet . though the web had initially been viewed as a popular way for major record companies and compact disc retailers to expand their reach , it would ultimately prove a meaning to the obsolescence of a tangible rendering of a digital recording . Napster was a peer-2-peer based way to trade digital media such as music and movies already have by hidden users and contained on computer hard drives . Though a move injunction closed its operations , this turn up an inflection point for both ecommerce and the music industry . The free exchange of media which in one case commanded imposing profit margins for record companies and retailers alike , had become an progressively widespread fashion through which consumers would obtain their music . Though record retailers initially resisted through vigorous legal action , such companies as orchard apple tree are lighting the way to a significant re-orientation of the music industry toward the sal e of digital media in a virtual setting . The ITunes! program , which in 2003 unveiled a library of 200 ,000 songs each available to download for the charge of 1 , is the next generation of music formatting , with the momentous cultural and economic pull of the IPod MP3 music sham suggesting that this method of retail is fast surpassing the physical context as a means to media acquisition (Gowan , 1 ) With the recent resolve that the Tower Records megastores will be completion due to the connection s gradual decline in sales performance , there is good cause to believe that in fact , ecommerce is well on its way to fully revolutionizing the music buying preferences and habits of mainstream consumersThe problem for places like the University of Maryland is that the decline in the music industry s fortunes has been blamed on their failure to act in a preventative role . However , it is of applicability that the perspective issued by the students of Maryland takes on markedly diametrical proportions . Such is to say that the we alth of available websites and run for free downloading which current celestial latitude outside of the purview of mainstream label interests suggests that there are ever greater resources outside of legal downloading than within . To many students , who would take down in the True /False element that a legal buy off-service would be of interest if such were available , were also able to intimate in the Open-Ended question section that this was an answer separate from the fact that most would theless find greater technological intuition and field of study availability exploitation free go therefrom , perhaps even more compelling to decision-makers at the University of Maryland than the cost factor to devoted music collectors is the better diversity and depth of that which is available in illegal operate .

By eliminating the mercenary gatekeeping entities such as record companies and retail organizations , who accommodate limited physical resources or space by pressing and promoting only the most commercial-gradely viable products , online -sharing communities provide a far more varied and layered sort of music from which to choose This is something which the industry and universities are scrambling to contend with to a in truth limited degree of successThis is particularly evident with the survey results yielded by the True /False segment of the Survey (Appendix A ) hither , the responses of students on the subject of downloading suggests that even with the success of iTunes , Rhapsody and such work as flutter , which is being adopted as a ally to the University of Maryland , there go alongs to be a far greater interest on the part of students to overlay to download illegally . The Table listed her e demonstrates the findings of this set of queriesTable 2Downloading s and Sharing at U of Maryland 2008Question True FalseI soon download music or video from the Internet65 35I burn CDs of the music I have downloaded from the Internet .60 40I transfer my downloaded music to an iPOD , MP3 player or some other portable speech operate player63 37I list to downloaded music on my computer82 18I barter for music from a pay site such as iTunes or Napster49 51If the university provided legal access to download music , I would download and pay for songs .77 23I would be willing to pay a weeny select 20- 30 ) per semester for a legal downloading service through the campus78 22I suppose an educational context through the university on the subject of downloading would be useful and informative74 26I would be willing to pay a baseish tuition fee 20- 30 ) per semester to support such a service40 60n 40 The findings here suggest that online sharing is not evidently a technological lea p , but even more , is a grass-roots market reaction ! to the shortcomings of an industry where increasingly short-sighted business practices had rendered its leaders distinctly vulnerable to change . Thus , students are in many ways dedicated to the act practice of illegal downloading methods , which appear continually provide the opera hat offer for music consumers residing on campuses such as the University of MarylandRecommendationsGiven these findings , a resolution is not easily found for the University of Maryland . confederation with a progressive organization seems admit , though one wonders based on its extremely modest pro , whether whirl is an appropriate measure . Though it offers students the opportunity for free downloading , it down fall well short of that which is available on such popular non-pay sites as Limewire and MorpheusIn a manner , a lodge such as Apple , whose ITunes downloading program and IPOD listening optical aberration have come to represent a nexus between the popular and industry-oriented appl ications of the new technology demonstrates that organizational evolution is strength and that capitalization within the new context is a practical goal . However that Apple is a computer technology based organization that is now topping record retailers at their own game does not bode well for many traditional music retail companies , that have in all probability already waited to long to realise the altered expectations of listeners . The assign that remains before ITunes and its likely slew of competitors in the coming years , though , will be to break down many of the commercial barriers which have prevented profit-intended companies from supporting more divers(prenominal) and content-deep music catalogues . With the greater autonomy of the consumer in setting standards regarding content , progressive retailers can use the medium to better understand the tastes of audiences . If this can be paired with a balanced pricing structure broad-based commercial organizations an d music consumers may reach a stasis in which both pr! ofits and expectations can be met fit to the opportunities present in the fast-advancing technologyFor the University of Maryland , any successful program must therefore be couched in attempts to adopt or partner with the ad pickax of technological improvements and legal clarity that are to this day settle down better represented in the illegal downloading context . In the immediate future , those who have channeled P2P concepts into functional pay services will function to sub stores and websites that are database-founded . This serves the recommendation here that the University of Maryland must itself take an approach which attempts to divulge the clearest legal way to embrace peer-2-peer approachsThe task that remains before the university now is to join forces with the students , as arguing with this group is unrealistic . With media and technology companies removing certain aspects of the record connection from the equation of delivery , it will be most important for t he university to focus on producing a product of high calibre and finding those avenues which are likely to succeeding in connecting with the appropriate listeners . While a partner in this may not be immediately outgoing , it seems more fitting to job itself with the interest of the student , and not the record industry , in either enforcing or choosing not to enforce its regulations . Thus , it is more sensible for the University to remove the invective language referring to free downloading as theft and piracy from its campus website and instead focus its efforts on orbit a legal common ground with students and the industryConclusionThe industries have been most damaged not by the existence or even the success of these bootlegging communities but by their own stuffy inability to remain current with technological and communicational advances which have meant sweeping changes for the media in which they deal . While the RIAA , the MPAA and other industry players have sough t to become legal consequences to the perpetrators o! f these `piracy offenses , they have missed the opportunity to stay on the cusp of modernity and now find themselves incapable(p) of providing pay services which are functionally competitive with the conglomerate free services enjoyed today by bootleggers and personal enthusiasts alike . Today , the universities that are being oblige to answer to the music industry continue to be nark by this enclosure . It is only recently that it has begun to shift its approach from a exertion of legal obstruction to an inescapable embrace of progress . At this juncture though , with the economic consequences of their hold up already having taken a toll traditional companies have a great deal of catching up to do both in terms of technology and in terms of truly understanding the expectations of their target markets . It is recommended that until such time as this occurs , the University should independently research the legal and technological opportunities before it for astir(p) d ownloading opportunities . Student research , experimentation and input should , as with this research , be considered primaeval in devising the proper form of evolutionWorks CitedCrews , T brownish , H .F Bray , S Pringle , E .M (2007 . Student Campus Technology Trends : 2001 Versus 2006 . Educause Quarterly , 30 (4Gibson , O (2008 . piracy growing as fewer fans buy downloads . The Guardian . Online at http / entanglement .guardian .co .uk /technology /2008 /may /15 /piracy .digitalmusicGowan , Michael (2003 . Apple s ITunes melody Store Is a Winner . PC existence . Online at HYPERLINK http / vane .pcworld .com / word /id ,110991-page ,1 /article .html http /www .pcworld .com /article /id ,110991-page ,1 /article .htmlLederman , D (2008 . Mysterious Mulitplication of Copyright Complaints . inwardly high Ed . Online at http /insidehighered .com /news /2008 /05 /06 /riaaOffice of tuition Technology (OIT (2007 . Play Fair . University of Maryland . Online at H YPERLINK http /www .oit .umd .edu /PlayFair http /www! .oit .umd .edu /PlayFairPorter , Michael E . and Jan W . Rivkin (July 10 , 2000 . Industry TransformationBoston , MA : Harvard Business drill Publishing , theme no . 9-701-008 , 16 pagesRivkin , Jan W . and Gerritt Meier (September 22 , 2005 . BMG Entertainment .Boston , MA : Harvard Business School Publishing , eccentric person no 9-701-003 , 24 pagesAppendix ASurvey administered to University of Maryland StudentsOpen Ended Questions1 .Do you download music from the internet2 .How long have you been downloading music from the internet3 .What motivating you to explore this option of acquiring music s4 .How often would you say you download music (i .e . once a day , once a calendar week , once a month5 .If you download music , what are your sites /services of use6 .why do you prefer the sites /services which you use over others available7 .If you use free downloading services , what are your reasons for doing so8 .Do you use database services , peer-2-peer communities or some other type of transfer program9 .What are the advantages or disadvantages of the type of program (s /service (s ) you use10 .Do you understand the laws of copyright fortress ? If so , how do you reconcile downloading music for free11 .Do you believe that downloading music for free should be characterized as piracy ? wherefore or why not12 .Are you concerned about the legal consequences of free downloading Why or why not13 .Why , in your opinion , is the music industry fight financially14 .Has the music industry been effective in responding to the changes in technology and music acquisition ? Why or why not15 .What recommendations would you make to the record industry in to help it meet your require and expectations concerning online music acquisition16 .What recommendations would you make to the University in to help it meet your unavoidably and expectations concerning online music acquisitionTrue /False Statements1 .I currently download music or video from the Internet2 .I b urn CDs of the music I have downloaded from the Inter! net3 .I transfer my downloaded music to an iPOD , MP3 player or some other portable audio player4 .I listen to downloaded music on my computer5 .I purchase music from a pay site such as iTunes or Napster6 .I would be willing to pay a small fee 20- 30 ) per semester for a legal downloading service through the campus7 .I think an educational context through the university on the subject of downloading would be useful and informative8 .I would be willing to pay a small tuition fee 20- 30 ) per semester to support such a serviceIllegal Music Downloading ...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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