Controversially Digital Rights Management Is Said to Fight Copyright Infringement Online

-What Digital Rights Management is, opposing views, pro's and con's-

Digital rights management (DRM) relates to a class of access control, which refers to exerting control over who can interact with a resource; most of the time this involves an authority. Digital rights management is a technology that is used by hardware manufactures, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. Content providers claim that digital rights management is necessary to fight copyright infringement online and that it can help the copyright holder maintain it's finally say as the product is going out. An example of this is a movie director has the authoritative say in the final cut. People opposed to digital rights management argue that there is no evidence that digital rights management helps prevent copyright infringement, but it serves only to bash legitimate customers, and that digital rights management helps big business end innovation and competition.

-Digital Rights Management, works to decrease piracy and copying-

Digital rights management technologies try to give control to the seller of digital content or devices after it has been given to a consumer. In a simpler form, digital rights management technologies attempt to control what you can and can't do with the media and hardware you've purchased. For digital content it means preventing the consumer access, denying the user the ability to copy the content and produce such hardware. Digital rights management products were developed in response to the rapid increase in online piracy of commercially marketed material, which increased through the mass use of peer-to-peer file exchange programs, well talk about that later. Typically digital rights management is used by embedding a code that prevents copying and specifies a time period in which the content can be accessed or limits the number of devices the media can be installed on

-What Digital Rights Management means to me, downloading, and Apple-

Personally, I think digital rights management is very useful, but I don't think that it discourages piracy. For example, Apple is changing the way digital rights management works, digital rights management is a nuisance for the user. "We are going to be selling non-DRM music from the summer", says Dave Elston, HMV's digital content manager. Amazon has announced that its DRM-free MP3 download store, already online in the US, will be rolled out internationally later this year, according to this article.
I think that if one of the top music industry software programs, Apple, is abandoning DRM then they most likely know the best solution for users. DRM means to my downloads what is means to most people's downloads that it's going to be harder to download illegal music, which most people and college students do.

The definition of a "blog" is as follows : A Web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often havingimages and links to other Web sites. (Dictionary). I think the term "blog" has changed tremendously and has become very effective and reliable with today's generation. 

The generation that I am apart of has grown up with the everyday use of the Internet. We use the Internet for everything; to talk to people, do work, find information, read, write, and I could list a million things we use the Internet for, but I'm not here to talk to you about that certain topic. The point I'm trying to make is that succeeding generations are heavily relying on technology to the point where is becoming unbearable. According to TechCrunch sources the average time of a user spent on Facebook is 441 minutes! That is just over 7 hours of staring at a screen about your friends! 

I believe that if we become too technologically savvy and extremely dependent on technology the world is going to change; traditions are changing, children aren't spending as much time with their families, the "modern" American family isn't becoming as "modern," more like the "new" American family. The NY times and other articles are proposing the term that our generation is called "The children of Cyberspace," and I agree with that term because with all of the chats and blogs being composed by the second, we linger and float around on the Internet; Cyberspace, as you wish to call it.

With all of these reasons, articles, scientific evidence and calculation I think I can conclude the final decision that America, even other countries, is highly addicted to the Internet with an increasing rate. 

The term "Mass Media" can be defined as: all those media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication. Broadcast media (also known as electronic media) transmit their information electronically and comprise television, film, radio, CD, DVDs, and other devices such as cameras and video consoles. The question of interest is that "are blogs considered a form of mass media?" We sufficient evidence, thoughts, and insightful information I do believe blogs are a form of mass media because there are certain blogs that are read by massive amounts of the population who abide by the blogs information. When a person posts a blog on a highly populated and credential website, that website gets a lot of hits and people really do listen because the information is very helpful and the readers think so too.

A real life example of a blog that is considered a form of mass media is called the "HuffingtonPost", this website is known for it being called the Internet newspaper: news, blogs, video, community. The HuffingtonPost has 54,000,000 unique monthly visitors, now I would call that a mass audience. Now when this website posts a very interesting blog it becomes a form of mass media because it has a tremendous amount of viewers. If you would like to check it out here!

Max Parker