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| Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 |
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- Made a clear distinction between legal and illegal copying of music.
- media wants to stop copying completely
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| Digital Millenium Copyright Act |
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- Introduced in 1998
- Made it legal to sell uncopyable digital material
- Must use systems that break copying functions on devices
- preventing copying through technical, not legal, means
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- Developed by the Senate
- Protect IP Act
- exactly the same as SOPA, but the other half of Congress
- The only difference is that PIPA didn't require search engines to remove foreign infringing sites from their results
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- Stop Online Piracy Act
- Created by the House
- Required:
- ISP's to block the DNS of offending sites
- Search engines to exclude offending sites from search results
- Websites to monitor their content
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- Would cost to much money to monitor everything
- Content can be censored anywhere in the world
- You can take out anyone pointing to illegal content
- Raises the cost of online complience level where those businesses will go out of business
- DNS blocking doesnt work because you can just use the IP address to access blocked content
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- Happened in 1996
- It deregulated the Telecommunication companies
- unintended results were that mass amounts of media consolidation started
- 1983 - 90% of media owned by 50 companies
- 2011 - 90% of media owned by 6 companies
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- General Electric
- News-Corp
- Disney
- CBS
- Time Warner
- Viacom
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| Arguements for Corporate Media System |
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- Lack of government control
- The "eyeball democracy" argument
- Quality programming argument
- Synergy argument - vertical structure = convenience
- Media diversity argument - corporations provide diversity
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| Arguments Against Corporate Media System |
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- Market censorship argument
- Poor quality argument
- Conflict of interest argument
- Monopoly argument
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| Information about Big Six |
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- 2010 revenue was $275 billion
- 70% of cable is controlled by them
- 1 out of 5 hours is programmed by Comcast and NBC
- Monopoly's in 11 cities by Comcast and NBC
- 178 million users read Time Warner news every month
- News Corp saved 875 million in taxes in the US in 2010
- That is enough double FEMA's budget and enough to fund NPR for 40 years
- Clear Channel owns 1,200 stations
- $7 billion in box office sales in 2010
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