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B.S.G.E Bryan Levin Technology 3/18/08 When piracy first started the idea of downloading illegal movies for free was never real a major idea, until the past 5 years. Music downloading has been a huge obstacle for music industries to stop the piracy, but movie piracy has been increasing every year and movie theaters and production companies are starting to worry. It is said that the piracy rates are over [|33% for CDs] and [|15% for DVDs] (Anderson, C). The way movie industries are making money has also changed dramatically. Prior to 1985, feature motion pictures had one major source of revenue in the United States and abroad: the movie theater (Jaeger, J). Instead of people going to the movie theaters, new technology has allowed people to just sit home and watch movies on pay-per-view, on-demand, or download them through pirate websites. The new generation of movie viewers has become lazy and cheap, not respecting the hard work that the movie production companies have to go through to create their product. It is just easier and cheaper to download the movie for free, and watch it at your own expense on your computer screen. The demand for a high speed internet has also sky rocketed because people have become impatient when downloading music or movies from the internet too. The next thing you know, no one will be leaving their homes to see movies or buy CD albums, everything will be on their computer with just the touch of a button. I was also able to find out from my research that people are making money going to the movie theaters (Media Predictions). This is true because people are video taping the movie then selling it for a cheap price that people would buy. After they pay for their ticket they are getting their money back and then money from selling the video. Another technique used to make money is to copy the screener videos that some companies get for just viewing purposes. The screener video is a DVD that comes out when a movie is the theaters. It is the real DVD, not bootleg, and people are making money from that because they got it for free and people want it more than a movie shot from a video camera because the quality is perfect. One article that I found very interesting on video piracy talked about how one website, The Pirate Bay, has had law suits held against them for pirating music, movies, games, programs, etc. but they were able to avoid any law suit by claiming what they are doing is perfectly legal. The Pirate Bay main head quarters are in Sweden and the Swedish government is perfectly fine with what The Pirate Bay has done and is promoting. The Pirate Bay is so affective that, “New movies sometimes appear at the top of the site's most-popular list before flickering onto a single theater screen” (Norton, Q) with this remarkable speed of being able to upload files on to their servers so quickly becomes a huge turn on for their users. In the future I believe that companies will find a way to make money using the torrent websites to their advantage. One idea that I came up with is connected to the fact that some newspapers decided on putting their articles online for free because they make more money by having companies advertise on their site. This idea can be used by movie and music companies. They can create their own website that has the real quality movie and just have advertisers pay ridiculous amounts of money to advertise n their website because millions of people would go onto those websites every single day knowing that it is perfecting legal. I also predict that in the future movie theaters are not going to close down, they are going to adapt to the new technology of the world and produce film projectors that project movies in blue- ray quality. This new invention introduced into movie theaters will be a huge success and bring back the revenue movie theaters used to make.
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 * Pose three questions that arise from your reading || who possessed the information about the mines?
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 * Look at the Discussion pages of the wiki pages - effective communication? || yes, i feel it has effective communication ||
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 * Are they clear in their messages to each other? || yes, they are clear in their messages ||
 * Is there a sense of negotiation and collaboration? || yes, there is a sense of negotiation and collaboration ||
 * **Collaboration**
 * Does the work appear to be equally shared? || yes, it appears to be equally shared ||
 * Does there appear to be any difficulties by one or more members of the team? || no, it does not appear. ||
 * **Presentation - Layout and Design**
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