Thursday, March 6, 2008

DP1 both (HL & SL) Weekend Assignment (7th March 2008)

Prepare a one page document in response to the below questions (10 marks)

File Sharing
Visit the following link and answer questions 1 & 2. BBC ClickOnline; File Sharing 3-18-04
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_11_2004.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=2

1. What company supplied the “big break” in file sharing?

2. What are three reasons why file sharing music and software was so successful?Who is responsible for downloading?

File-sharing suffers major defeat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4627679.stm

3. In June 2006, The US Supreme Court has made a new ruling about who is responsible for the downloading of media from file sharing networks? Who is responsible? How is this different to the comparison to video recorders?

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