oBJECTIVES
1. Describe the technologies used in copyright infringement.
2. Evaluate possible solutions to copyright infringement.
3. Evaluate the impacts of computer gaming.
4. explain how news and media is broadcast using IT.
5. Evaluate the effects of citizen journalism and social media
6. Explain how IT is used in digital preservation and restoration.
2. Evaluate possible solutions to copyright infringement.
3. Evaluate the impacts of computer gaming.
4. explain how news and media is broadcast using IT.
5. Evaluate the effects of citizen journalism and social media
6. Explain how IT is used in digital preservation and restoration.
Home and leisure
Digital policing (Megan)
These are policemen online that check if everything online. Such as things on Facebook that can be reported to Facebook, here they check what was reported and they have the ability to delete that page/comment. You also have policemen specialized in catching child pornography owners.
Here are there examples of who/what they try to look for, and what they do online
Digital preservation (Sophie)
Digital Preservation is defined as being “the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary.” (This definition comes from the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Digital Preservation Definitions and Concepts list.)
Digital Preservation is the management and maintenance of digital objects (the files, or groups of files, that contain information in digital form) so they can be accessed and used by future users. It is important to start thinking about digital preservation early in the life cycle of a digital object because while traditional print objects may last relatively unharmed for decades untouched, this is not the case with digital objects, which have significantly shorter life spans. Therefore, by thinking about preserving the digital object early on, even when it is created, we save a great deal of time and stress later on when trying to retrieve the information an object holds before it is too late. In this sense, digital preservation, and especially early digital preservation, is important not only for personal data management but also large repositories that manage many objects. Though personal horror stories of lost data seem to be scattered and only happen from time to time, for larger repositories that contain many hundreds and thousands of digital objects, lost data can be a much bigger problem. Digital Preservation, after all, is frequently focused on long term use, which can be quite difficult to achieve considering how fragile digital objects can be. There are several strategies used to help preserve digital objects, such as emulation, migration and data redundancy.
Introduction to the Problem
Today, we have access to information and data that 15 years ago would have scarcely seemed possible. It seems that almost everything is being created and used in the digital realm. Documents such as history report, the spreadsheet that shows last year’s travel budget and more were likely all generated on the computer. However, though we use computers for so many things, we often don’t give much thought about preserving what we do generate until it is too late. Most people can remember at least one horror story of lost data, whether it happened to them or to a friend; the research paper that was lost when the computer crashed or the scattered and disorganized family photos that were only saved to one hard drive – that eventually crashed! This list of lost digital data illustrates the potential fragility of digital information. There are several reasons why digital objects are so fragile.
For more information please check out these websites:
http://old.diglib.org/preserve.htm
http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/jisc-beg-dig-pres/content/what-is-digital-preservation/
http://www.lib.umich.edu/preservation-and-conservation/digital-preservation/what-digital-preservation
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/ccare/introduction/digital/
These are policemen online that check if everything online. Such as things on Facebook that can be reported to Facebook, here they check what was reported and they have the ability to delete that page/comment. You also have policemen specialized in catching child pornography owners.
Here are there examples of who/what they try to look for, and what they do online
- Find illegal music downloaders
- Report people who install/sell their software to other people illegally
- Copyright problems
- o Common Examples of Online Copyright Infringement:
- o You make an MP3 copy of a song because the CD you bought expressly permits you to do so. But then you put your MP3 copy on the Internet, using a file-sharing network, so that millions of other people can download it.
- o Even if you don’t illegally offer recordings to others, you join a file-sharing network and download unauthorized copies of all the copyrighted music you want for free from the computers of other network members.
- o In order to gain access to copyrighted music on the computers of other network members, you pay a fee to join a file-sharing network that isn’t authorized to distribute or make copies of copyrighted music. Then you download unauthorized copies of all the music you want.
- o You transfer copyrighted music using an instant messaging service.
- o You have a computer with a CD burner, which you use to burn copies of music you have downloaded onto writable CDs for all of your friends.
- o Somebody you don’t even know e-mails you a copy of a copyrighted song and then you turn around and e-mail copies to all of your friends.
- o (more info check: http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy_online_the_law)
- o Common Examples of Online Copyright Infringement:
- Prevent online revolutions and find they people who started it
- Check chartrooms for unwanted people
- Plagiarism
Digital preservation (Sophie)
Digital Preservation is defined as being “the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary.” (This definition comes from the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Digital Preservation Definitions and Concepts list.)
Digital Preservation is the management and maintenance of digital objects (the files, or groups of files, that contain information in digital form) so they can be accessed and used by future users. It is important to start thinking about digital preservation early in the life cycle of a digital object because while traditional print objects may last relatively unharmed for decades untouched, this is not the case with digital objects, which have significantly shorter life spans. Therefore, by thinking about preserving the digital object early on, even when it is created, we save a great deal of time and stress later on when trying to retrieve the information an object holds before it is too late. In this sense, digital preservation, and especially early digital preservation, is important not only for personal data management but also large repositories that manage many objects. Though personal horror stories of lost data seem to be scattered and only happen from time to time, for larger repositories that contain many hundreds and thousands of digital objects, lost data can be a much bigger problem. Digital Preservation, after all, is frequently focused on long term use, which can be quite difficult to achieve considering how fragile digital objects can be. There are several strategies used to help preserve digital objects, such as emulation, migration and data redundancy.
Introduction to the Problem
Today, we have access to information and data that 15 years ago would have scarcely seemed possible. It seems that almost everything is being created and used in the digital realm. Documents such as history report, the spreadsheet that shows last year’s travel budget and more were likely all generated on the computer. However, though we use computers for so many things, we often don’t give much thought about preserving what we do generate until it is too late. Most people can remember at least one horror story of lost data, whether it happened to them or to a friend; the research paper that was lost when the computer crashed or the scattered and disorganized family photos that were only saved to one hard drive – that eventually crashed! This list of lost digital data illustrates the potential fragility of digital information. There are several reasons why digital objects are so fragile.
For more information please check out these websites:
http://old.diglib.org/preserve.htm
http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/jisc-beg-dig-pres/content/what-is-digital-preservation/
http://www.lib.umich.edu/preservation-and-conservation/digital-preservation/what-digital-preservation
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/ccare/introduction/digital/
- Check if people follow the law