Nowadays we exclusively depend on the web for the vast majority of our day by day movement, social programming has turned into the principle wellspring of correspondence for people. I can say social programming has made correspondence a lot simpler particularly applications like “Fcaebook,twitter,instagram,whatsapp” that enable us to impart universally without running up our telephone bill.the extraordinary thing about Social programming is having the capacity to speak with individuals from everywhere throughout the world there are no confinements.In the article “ Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?” by Dana Boyd, she explains how our lives are shaped by social technology. Boyd says “People join the sites with their friends and use the different messaging tools to hang out, share cultural artifacts and ideas, and communicate with one another”. Be that as it may, there is a defeat to social programming, there is no security everything is available to the open which can be exasperating, individuals may feel like they have no protection while owning an internet based life account. In spite of the fact that these applications enable us to make our profiles private, our profiles are never extremely private. Individuals can make counterfeit records to access your profile or individuals can screen capture our profiles so there is as yet an opportunity an individual who you may avoid your profile may finish up observing it. These articles demonstrate the upsides and downsides that originate from social programming. Generally I observe social programming to be useful for us due to the headway it has made on the planet, It makes our lives simpler and makes advancement.

The medium is the association with how we get or continue on the message, without the medium it is extremely unlikely we can send or get data around each other. There are different ways the medium can be exhibited particularly since time and the computerized media is continually evolving. Marshall Mcluhan made a point that “the medium is the message” in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.,  Author Marshall McCluhan uses the example of the electric light. “Whether the light is being used for brain surgery or night baseball is a matter of indifference. It could be argued that these activities are in some way the “content” of the electric light, since they could not exist without the electric light”.The more we remain connected to our telephones and computerized media, the more we start to act and receive ways of life of the general population we pursue. This, yet we start to basically investigate each easily overlooked detail about ourselves, and end up with the end that we are as yet not sufficient, or we need more than what we as of now have.Along these lines, without medium, media would simply resemble us pursuing a course book in class that we never knew, or get it. Along these lines, it has prompted a transient ascent of new media. That is the reason individuals would prefer to peruse internet based life posts, at that point take a gander at conventional news.

In the article “ The Mobile Browser Is Dead, Long Live The App” by Ewan Spencer discusses how people are spending more time on their devices, they are spending over 2 hours a day on their devices. Spencer states  “Users are living in their smartphone’s applications…Users are turning away from the browser and relying on applications”. Individuals are on their telephones every minute of every day and have a pack of applications available to them constantly. It takes into account individuals to have the capacity to purchase things with the bit of a catch. Numerous telephones have the choice for the application to recall your username and secret key, your location, and charge card data which makes it substantially more simpler to buy things from applications. In the “The Fierce Battle for the Soul of Bitcoin” it states “Meanwhile, some of the new entrants to the bitcoin universe—venture capitalists and entrepreneurs—have a much different vision. They see bitcoin as something more practical: a hyperefficient online transaction system like Visa, but cheaper, faster, and more flexible. It would usher in a world in which we don’t have to trust online vendors to safeguard our credit card numbers, in which merchants don’t have to pay exorbitant handling fees, and in which payments as small as fractions of a cent could unleash a kind of long tail of commerce, making it just as easy and profitable for an Argentine vintner to accept money from a wine connoisseur in Dubai as it is for Amazon to sell diapers in Dubuque. Bitcoin is not normal for ordinary banks or applications that handle cash”. Bitcoin won’t resemble banks where they clutch your cash or charge expenses to take out cash from the bank. Bitcoin permits individuals from everywhere throughout the world to utilize one widespread money that is even between all nations. It very well may be later exchanged to paper cash in the event that somebody chooses to purchase your Bitcoins with their cash.

Media has made globalization simpler than at any other time. Individuals can interface with individuals from everywhere throughout the world . Regardless of whether it is sharing images or answering to remarks under a viral post or just to talk, media makes it conceivable. With the snap of a catch, an individual could be associated with an individual from over the world. Media enables everybody to comprehend another culture.This article makes a persuading point that people could utilize correspondence through various kinds of sources including online networking to interface with one another to make sufficient changes to guarantee their relational abilities are increasingly useful..In the article entitled, Media Literacy: A National Priority for a Changing World, Elizabeth Thoman stated that “Today, information about the world around us comes to us not only by words on a piece of paper but more and more through the powerful images and sounds of our multi-media culture.” Media takes into consideration individuals to take in all that they need from their vehicle, on a tablet in a plane, through the web and particularly through their mobile phones. PDA enables individuals to turn upward and discover anything they desire to enable them to comprehend, learn and even associate with individuals from different societies around the globe on the off chance that they’re sufficiently fascinated. This is major for the assortment of individuals and diverse societies to meet up utilizing media.

For our class activity, we will be splitting our activity into two parts which includes a game of Kahoot and a mock court case. The game of Kahoot should take 10-15 minutes and it will be testing the knowledge of which tricky examples are to be considered as piracy and which are not. The second part of the activity will take a longer time because it will be a mock trial in which some students will play judges, others will be artists, some will be well-known music companies/labels, and the rest will be consumers who participate in piracy. In the mock court case, the artists/music companies are suing the consumers for pirating their music and will have to develop strong arguments against the opposing side (consumers) in order to convince the judges why piracy should be banned, how it negatively affects their crafts/sales, and why they should win the case. The consumers will have to defend themselves with convincing arguments on why they decided to illegally copyright these products in order to convince the judges that piracy isn’t a damaging thing and doesn’t have detrimental effects on artists/music labels to win the case. Before the trial begins, each group will have 5 minutes to discuss their arguments to present to the judges.

Piracy has become a major issue for the music industry, the film industry, as well as other industries. People have found ways around paying high prices for the music they listen to or for the movies they want to watch. I think the amount of money that is asked of consumers is too much and creates a system where consumers are asked to give more money than they can afford. I believe it has become easier to watch free content online or download it to any device you want and essentially this is what people want. They do not want to buy every song they want to listen to but rather choose from a wide selection at a low or no cost. Pual Tassi believes we will never get rid of piracy. In his article, “You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You”, he states, “ They still believe people are going to want to buy DVDs or Blu-rays in five years, and that a movie ticket is well worth $15. Netflix is the closest thing they have to an advocate, but the studios are trying to drive them out of business as they see them as a threat, not a solution. It’s mind boggling.” I believe that if the prices for movies or music went down more people would be encouraged to buy it. However, streaming services do provide a place where you can download all the music you want for a fee so streaming services do offer some relief. I think of piracy as a way for people to enjoy creativity while defying the overpriced and ridiculous system that is in place that expects consumers to pay absurd  amounts of money just so a singer or an actress can be paid millions of dollars. If they were paid less, then we would not be required to pay so much for what they create. As Tassi writes, “Perhaps A-list actors do not need multi-multi-million dollar salaries when there are thousands of hardworking amateurs trying to get noticed.” I think that people in the entertainment industry get paid too much money and its insulting to people of lower classes that those jobs are worth more. People do not need millions to live but in a capitalistic society many people do dream of having it all possible. I do believe that if a more effective way of downloading content were available at a lower cost more people would gravitate towards that approach in every industry instead of expecting regular people to pay a lot of money in order to sustain a money hungry system.

In the article “As Objects Go Online,” the author discussed some benefits of connecting physical objects to the internet such as with health care, “shelves and pill bottles connected to the Internet can alert a forgetful patient when to take a pill, a pharmacist to make a refill, and a doctor when a dose is missed.”The web is the wellspring of everything nowadays, we as a whole depend on the web somehow or another or structure. Individuals would now be able to telecommute or even take classes on the web, we never again need to flag down taxi organizations we can simply arrange a taxi on the web. We can even request nourishment on the web, theres no compelling reason to bring in requests. Interfacing articles to the web makes everything helpful, we can even have our homes associated with the web. Amazon’s “Alexa” gadget enables people to have voice power over their lights,thermostats , your Television and a lot increasingly home gadgets. It is incredible to have the capacity to control everything from a shrewd gadget, state you neglect to set the house caution since you are hurrying out the house, you can simply arm the alert from your telephone without voyaging right back to the house. In spite of the fact that there are numerous positive things about having objects associated with the web there likewise a few negatives.It can be detrimental because somebody can hack into your framework and incapacitate your cautions and cameras so when they break into your home, you could never know. Additionally, the excessively reliance is a negative thing in light of the fact that the Internet isn’t generally a certification, and on the off chance that we depend a ton on it, we won’t realize how to do anything on the off chance that it was closed down or experiencing issues.the innovation has achieved a few concerns the security of numerous individuals in light of the fact that their data and information would all be able to be found on cell phone applications and items in their home. This is unsafe on the grounds that you don’t have the foggiest idea who is out there hacking into your frameworks and watching you (stalking in genuine cases), tuning in on your discussions, or upsetting the items in your home to alarm you and cause hurt. We have turned out to be excessively reliant on these exceptionally innovative progressions that we neglect to understand that we put our lives in risk each time we interface something of our own to the web with a large number of outsiders.

Piracy is a very difficult thing to combat, it appears to make online copyright obsolete. Paul Tasso stated “It can’t, is the short answer, and one these companies do not want to hear as they put their fingers in their ears and start yelling. As technology continues to evolve, the battle between pirates and copyright holders is going to escalate, and pirates are always, always going to be one step ahead.” Basically, piracy is inescapable; people develop new ways to take copyrighted information every day and will continue to do so. There are always loopholes in security systems and there are so many people with access to the internet that at least one is going to find a way through. According to Timothy J. Seppala “For the past decade, if you wanted to download copyrighted material and didn’t want to pay for it, it’s likely you turned to The Pirate Bay.” Things like The Pirate Bay were more cost effective to use and people knew that. People want to avoid spending money however they can and there’s no way the police can catch every single person who downloads copyrighted programs without paying. The numbers soar to the millions and only continue to grow as people learn of new platforms to access free movies, games, and other copyrighted things. Lastly, to paraphrase what Zachary M. Seward said in his article is basically that people enjoy being at home watching movies. They were able to see The Interview which wasn’t aired in many theaters. Also, a number of people felt that they would be able to properly enjoy the movie at home than in a crowded movie theater. Streaming things for free is a lot more appealing than going to another place that’s crowded, maybe messy and costs about fifteen dollars a person. It may not be in the creators’ best interests but people don’t know the work that goes into the making the things that are put out there. They don’t care to appreciate the work and the work being copyrighted doesn’t change that opinion because people just wish to entertain themselves.

Piracy lived with a new meaning since the dawn of the internet. It no longer meant dirty men in ships wearing peg legs and eye patches sailing around the sea for treasure. It meant people in the internet illegally obtaining media. It was anything people could get their hands on for free; pictures, music and their favorite show and movies. As more people began to download things off the internet, the bigger loss copyright holder had.  For years, Pirates v. Copywriters battled. And although the original holders had some big wins like having the biggest pirating site shut down, they will never be able to fully stop pirating.  According to Paul Tassi’s You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You “As technology continues to evolve, the battle between pirates and copyright holders is going to escalate, and pirates are always, always going to be one step ahead”. In other words, as long as technology thrives and lives, there will always be somebody taking content and sharing it online for others to have.  When I was younger, I remember when Game of Thrones first came out and how popular it quickly became. We never had HBO, but we always seemed to be able to have it ready. I would look at my brother-in-law and ask how, he would only lift up both of his hands and curve his two index fingers, like hooks. Piracy has always been a go to when it came to getting content for free. Timmothy J. Sappala’s Article The Pirate Bay shutdown: the whole story (so far) stated ”You didn’t have to log in to some arcane message board or know someone to get an invite — the anonymous file-sharing site was open to everybody and made piracy as simple as a Google search.” In the early days of the internet, people could simple take what they wanted. It wasn’t until people started losing money that things changed. Zachary M. Seward stated in his article Everything we know about how people watched “The Interview” and what it means for the future of internet video ”Piracy may be inevitable, but the early data suggest it can be mitigated with widely and easily available options to pay online.” In other words, piracy is something that can be prevented through our ever-growing systems of online protection.