Rough Draft for Annotated Bibliography

Allan Acosta
Annotated Bibliography
27 February 2009
Annotated Bibliography

Bainwol, Mitch. "Out: P2P Paranoia In: Platform Parity." Billboard 07 Jan. 2006: 4+. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . The paranoia of illegal downloading is declining but the need for similarity and equality is growing. Satellite radio pays its talk show hosts more money than they would pay the artists they put out there for people to hear. The artists want a platform that will be brought to Congress so that they get equal structures.

Bruno, Antony. "A New Battle Plan." Billboard 120.42 (18 Oct. 2008): 16-16. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . The RIAA is taking steps to prevent P2P music sharing. Cracking down on fans/ downloaders should be informational and give an alternate option to find their music choice. The RIAA needs to adapt to the new digital entertainment but not sit back and do nothing.

Bruno, Antony. "P2P: Too Legit To Quit." Billboard 119.9 (03 Mar. 2007): 16-16. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . Two services of peer-to-peer sharing, BitTorrent and Joost, are providing legal use of entertainment downloading. The problem is that millions of their downloaders can use this to steal illegal content. BitTorrent and Joost use companies and providers to pay for the legal downloads available to their customers. With the demand of fast entertainment, these services are making it easier for consumers to view what they are looking for. With this quick content, entertainment companies will need to explore into this creative world.

Cobo, Leila. "The Coming Crackdown." Billboard 121.6 (14 Feb. 2009): 16-16. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . The illegal downloading in Mexico has caused the country to fight back. The country is having problems preventing downloading due to the physical problems and the growing digital piracy. The peer-to-peer file sharing has doubled from the previous year.

Embleton, Kelly. "Downloading Illegal Music." Canadian Musician 24.4 (July 2002): 19. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . Downloading music online is a controversial issue today. The music industry is losing money because of the free availability. The new generation thinks music should be free.

Fritz, Kurt. "Playing a Different Tune." Information Today 25.11 (Dec. 2008): 15-15. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . Kurt Fritz acknowledges that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been trying to prevent the increasing number of illegal downloading of music. The RIAA has been around since 1952, their efforts have been focused on trying to protect the artists' property rights of their songs. Napster was seen as the first peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing service, but was put out of business by the RIAA in less than two years of existence. Napster's service came from a central server compared to other P2p services which have multiple workstations instead of one nucleus. RIAA has moved from looking for the main server to individual users. RIAA's lawsuits have forced people to pay thousands of dollars either outside of court or with costly trials.

Holahan, Catherine. "Music Downloading's New Deal." Business Week Online (31 Oct. 2006): 8-8. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . Free file sharing services are using business advertisements to support their causes. Illegal downloads aren’t seen as stealing to music downloaders, just music swapping. Pirate sites are trying to move on the side of RIAA to prevent illegal downloading. Many firms are now using fake files so that downloaders see their message once downloaded.

LeBlanc, Larry. "Industry Awaits Digital Guidelines." Billboard 112.45 (04 Nov. 2000): 48. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . Canadian government is trying to develop legislation on the digital sharing of music. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is trying to update the Copyright Act of Canada. Their efforts have not gone well.

Michelle Kessler. "Apple teams with AOL for legal music downloads." USA Today (n.d.). Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . Apple is a challenger for illegal downloading sites. AOL has been on the rise to making a legal downloading service but declined when Apple approached them. Many other legal downloading services are a challenge to Apple’s goal of becoming top legal downloading service.

"Napster R.I.P." Economist 364.8289 (07 Sep. 2002): 56-56. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . Napster’s removal has influenced lookalikes that have been able to go undetected because of the removal of central servers. The record industries have struggled to gain control because of the free legal sites are not as big as they thought they would be. The music industry sales have declined drastically.

Pike, George H. "The Financial Aid 'Stick' Against Illegal Downloading." Information Today 25.9 (Oct. 2008): 17-20. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . George Pike explains that illegal downloading is a challenge for copyright owners and universities. Pennsylvania State University has tried to provide legal downloading through a network funded by the university. Congress has tried to pass the Higher Education Act to prevent illegal downloading in colleges by cutting of federal financial aid funds if these colleges and universities do not put in policies to punish students caught file sharing. The Joint Congressional Committee tried to implement a few network security products to universities to find illegal downloading in schools. P2p files make it difficult to completely prevent music downloading in the college campus.

Pike, George H. "The Future of P2P." Information Today 22.8 (Sep. 2005): 17-19. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . Copyrighted materials have been illegally downloading through peer-to-peer networks. The structure of Grokster and Kazaa has eliminated the central servers, which was the reason Napster was caught. The only move copyright holders have been able to make is legal downloading networks.

San Miguel, Renay. "The Problem with File Sharing." Technology Review 108.10 (Oct. 2005): 39-39. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . The courts rule that file sharing networks are accountable for what their users do with their software. Cyberlaw expert argues that copyright laws were not written in the 21st century for downloading. The music industry could lose their jobs with their record sales falling because of the illegal file sharing.

Silvestrini, Elaine. "Judge Allows Counterattack In Music-File-Sharing Case." Tampa Tribune (FL) (07 May 2008). Newspaper Source. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL.26 Feb. 2009 . A student from the University of South Florida was sued for illegal downloading. He counterclaimed stating that the industries hired private investigators to go into private networks. The courts have sued many USF students and the university is paying thousands of dollars annually to have a network that detects file sharing in their university.

Stafford, Jim. "Download lawsuits filed on 5 in state: One Oklahoman says he was misled by service." Daily Oklahoman, The (OK) (09 Mar. 2007). Newspaper Source. EBSCO. Morris Library, Carbondale, IL. 26 Feb. 2009 . The RIAA filed lawsuits on 5 Oklahomans who have illegally downloaded copyrighted music from P2P sites. One Oklahoman said he was misled by Kazaa, because they stated file sharing was not illegal. The recording industry has filed lawsuits in many states since 2003.