Digital Economy Act.

The Digital Economy Act 2010 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating digital media. Introduced by Lord Peter Mandelson, it received Royal Assent on 8 April 2010, and came into force on 8 June 2010.

Under the act you will get 3 written warning letters about your internet download use. After 3 letters the internet at your address will either be slowed down or turned off for a period of time.

There are a few problems under the act though. Wifi being one. On laptops now you can connect to any wifi that doesn't have a password so although you as the wifi/ modem owner may have not actually downloaded songs, films, or software you can have your web slowed down because it's under your I.P. address.

It also takes 2 months to track someone.

The Act requires the provision of an independent appeals process, covering the grounds on which infringement reports are made. Cases are heard by a body set up by Ofcom, or if a technical measure has been applied a First-tier Tribunal.

Unlike in judicial appeals, the subscriber is innocent until proven guilty: the Act states that "an appeal on any grounds must be determined in favour of the subscriber unless the copyright owner or internet service provider shows that a) the apparent infringement was an infringement of copyright, and b) the report relates to the subscriber’s IP address at the time of that infringement". An appeal will also succeed if the subscriber can show that the rights holder or ISP broke Ofcom's regulatory code in any way.

Impact of the internet on media prezi

Impact of the Internet on the media revolution mind map on Prezi

Wikinomics Activity 2.

Trapscott and Williams have basically stated that there are 5 big ideas, Peering, free creativity, that the internet is democratized, you think globally, and that there is a thing called the perfect storm - technology, demographics, and economics all mixed into one.
To a certain extent I do agree that the two men are correct but I also believe that there is a few problems, a main one being that not all of the world has access to the internet. About 20 - 25% of the people in the world do so not everyone gets the 'free speech' that the people of the world wide web are 'entitled' to or at least what it was based on.

Five Big Ideas.

1. By Adam.
Peering is used in the music industry online. Peering is good for new music artists as it gives them the opportunity to upload and share their music and build a fan base and try to get noticed by a record label. On the other hand however once this new music artist begins to charge for their music, peering makes it easier for the artist's fans to illegally and freely download music, which will negatively effect the music artist.

2. Free Creativity.
Free creativity is a natural and positive outcome of the free market, it basically lets artist share their artistic works through the Internet.

Examples.


www.facebook.com/TooDeadToBury

Www.Soundcloud.com/Wibz

 

This is a screen grab from Sound Cloud where people in bands who create music individually can upload their own music to the site and then share through facebook and other social networking sights. The screen grab is from my friends profile who uploads his personal works and works the he has created at university. He then shares them with his friends and gets creative feedback from everyone. This could also act as an oppertunity for him to just send links to people in the media world or for him to be 'discovered' such as artists like Jessie J and Justin Bieber on youtube.com by uploading videos of them singing.
Example.  




A few examples for music sharing that may not come from the artist include www.spotify.com, Www.mediafire.com, www.it-leaked.com, and Napster.

3. By Rachel.

http://mediaandtheonlineage.blogspot.com/

https://hsfc.blackboard.com/webapps/login/

4. By Sarah.
Web 2.0 makes thinking globally inevitable. The internet is the 'worlds biggest coffeehouse', a virtual space in which a new blog is created every second. In this instantly global communication sphere, national and cultural boundaries are inevitably reduced.'

These images are examples of a virtual space. It is a prime example of just how many blogs are created every day. 

Twitter and Tumblr are just 2 of many popular social networking sites that contribute to global communication.

5. By Anna.

'The combination of three things - technology (web 2.0), demographics and economics' An example of this are stores which have online websites, for example Debenhams, which allows people to browse the stores collections before purchasing and also allowing people who live a further distance from the physical store to buy items and have them delivered. Therefore enhancing the companies profits. Also the stores can be seen on websites that are not there own through using social networking sites i.e. facebook.

 

http://www.debenhams.com/

Whereas the profits of stores which do not have any internet affiliation will suffer because of people using internet accessible shops, and internet shopping ever-growing in popularity.