coursewrok evaluation

I am happy with my 'A' grade, being the best available grade you can get. I believe that i earned this grade and whilst my behaviour or effort hasnt been of A-quality all the way through the course at times, I produced the goods when it counted. I invested in a copy of adobe photoshop at home which allowed me to put in the extra hours and perfect my work. I worked onthe write up nearly non-stop until it was completely right, and some sections I had to edit four or five times before it was good enough to submit. I am finding the film analysis work harder than the coursework however, as especially if i havnt seen the film i question and only having a few viewings, i havne nothing to write. il get good though.

re: 'All this online sharing has to stop'

• The IFPI - the International Federation of Phonographic Industries - is the global music industry organisation
• On Thursday it published its digital music report 2008. It said that "the spread of unlicensed music on ISP networks is choking revenues to record companies and investment in artists, despite a healthy increase in digital sales in 2007, up approximately 40% on the previous year".
• They suggested to sort it out by disconnecting infringers and the use of filtering technologies. They believe that this is the most effective way copyright theft can be controlled
• People copy and paste entire articles from online newspapers to blog sites or to their own computer and they don't pay a thing. Then they read them or "share" them with other people who they might not even have met.
• This is choking our investment in new journalism.
• In the past 10 years, hundreds - probably thousands - of journalists have been thrown out of jobs as newspapers and magazines have downsized.
• Pornography; there used to be tons of top-shelf magazines e.g playboy, escort, men only, back-door sluts 9, all earning a comfortable living.Then the internet came along and at a stroke destroyed their business model.
• Now there are loads of internet sites where you can get free amateur pornography - exactly the same sort of stuff that people used to pay for.
• British band Radiohead have bridged a revolutionary gap in releasing their latest (2007) album 'in rainbows' (which is a great album) in that they sold it not in the shops, but on their website available to download for with a voluntry donation. The average price was interestingly $2, which paints a picture on the price people place on the true value of music...

Re: 'Copying music legally in the digital age'

• Owners of digital music players will be acting lawfully when they transfer music from their computer to a digital player or copy a CD for their own use, under proposed amendments to bring copyright law into the digital age
• Consumers who have been technically 'breaking the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988' by copying tracks from CDs to their PC or digital player, or making an extra copy to play in the car, will now be able to do so for private use. Record labels accept that consumers should not be punished for shifting music from one format to another, but some are concerned it will increase the perception that music can be freely copied with impunity.
• The proposals suggest a new exemption for parodies of copyrighted works, while changes for libraries would allow for the copying of broadcasts for preservation purposes. Consumers would not be allowed to sell or give away the original once they had copied it.
• Music Rights, which represents composers and songwriters, said any changes to the law must be "tightly drawn". Legal experts said it made sense to tidy up a law that had been proved impractical and unworkable, but said it could have harmful consequences for a record industry that has been brought to its knees by digital piracy in recent years

Apple Iphone

The apple iPhone has been described as 'revolutionary' by critics for it's release. The apple iphone sports a host of features, creating the most complete media platform in the form of a personal hand held device do date. It has bridged the gap between mp3/personal audio player, mobile phone, and personal computer to create a fully functional product.
The reason the Ipone is 'so good' is that it has features that other models after an 'all in one' product
that actually work - e.g web pages are viewed as they appear on a personal computer; the GUI of the music platform is identical to that of an ipod/itunes, and the phone is fully functional and interface counter intuitive, thanks to the touch-screen and other such handy features. Other phones e.g the Nokia N95 have followed suit and produced an 'all in one' platform also.
A problem I can see for apple is their contract with 02, giving it a total monopoly of the market (UK) this will pose a great obstacle for most of the potential customers in the market for a 'phone more than anything, as many will already be established usuers of other networks. Will their gamble pay off? lets wait and see.