Is file sharing legal?

Most file sharing is not legal. Vast majority of sites violate the copy right law. You may only make a copy of your own CD for your own personal use, you may record it to a cassette tape or MP3 files, but you may not share it with a friend. Generally, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Copying copyrighted music is illegal.

Netiquette

Netiquette is a correct or acceptable way of communicating through the internet. Netiquette affects everyone on social networking sites. Some examples of good netiquette are good grammar and placing abbreviations in your text. Some examples of bad netiquette are typing in all caps, reading through other peoples’ emails, and going through other peoples’ files.

Copyright Case

Omega S.A. v. Costco Wholesale Corp. May 18, 2009, Costco Wholesale Corp. sold watches manufactured in Switzerland by Omega S.A. without Omega’s prior authorization. Omega used under the Copyright Act, claiming the sale of the watches was an infringement of the United States copyright. Costco defended on the grounds of the first sale doctrine, which provides a defense for reselling manufactured goods in the United States that are resold by retailers or distributors. Costco claims that the doctrine applies to the foreign-manufactured goods as well. Omega’s engraves a symbol on the underside of each watch known as the “Omega Globe Design”, this symbol has a United States copyright. On June 20th, 2012 the court awarded reasonable attorney fees and $396,844.17 to Costco.

legalintangibles.com

Hong Kong Glog

Project wrap up

My favorite part of the project was creating the power point. My least favorite part of the project was researching. I learned that there is a Disneyland in Hong Kong. It was difficult to research the history of Hong Kong. I think some of the strong points in my presentation were two of the attractions and the geographic location. Some of my weak points were looking at the audience and the history slide. Some suggestions for future research projects would be to give the rubric earlier.

Windows 8 Touch Screen Laptop

Windows 8 new laptop has a touch screen. The only problem with this is that users are not interested. Only 5% of Windows 8 laptops that were sold through December 15^th were touch screens. Besides the fact that only 30 out of the 700 different kinds of laptops at Best Buy are touch screen, the new touch screen laptops cost up to $120 to $150 dollars more than a regular laptop. The cheapest touchscreen laptop is the 11.6-inch Asus VivoBook, which sells for around $500.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/28/technology/mobile/windows-8-touchscreen/index.html