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EDT 6020 
Annotated Articles by Elaine McQuillin |
| 1. | McGuire, S. (2001, October 29). Software pirates, beware. Newsweek, 68C-68F |
| Microsoft has aligned itself with the Business Software Alliance to fight a global pirate trade revolving around software. An anti-piracy team has formed and currently has 250 members, half of whom are in marketing and communications who try to convince governments that stealing software is a real crime. The other members are in law-enforcement who face piracy backed by mafia and gangsters. While the demand for software, legal and illegal, is a reality, Microsoft continues to provide the greatest share of funding for the Business Software Alliance. |
| 2. | Levy, S. (2001, August 20). Busted by the copyright cops. Newsweek, 54. |
| Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian computer programmer, is being detained in the U.S. while fighting a potential five-year sentence for selling a program his employer owns that allows purchasers of Adobe e-books to make back-up copies for themselves. This case, according to the media giant Adobe, centers on the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act - a controversial 1998 law that Congress passed to protect holders of intellectual property in the Internet Age." After hightlighting other legal cases, this article, however, makes a point that commercial interests are leading Congress to suspend free speech and fair use. |
| 3. | Rogers, A. (2001, November 12). A little space music. Newsweek, 67-68. |
| During mid-November, 2001, digital radio delivered by satellite finally came online through Satellite Digital Audio Receiver Services (SDARS). This service, which provides commercial-free, niche digital radio, uses XM radios, which are also now available as an option in GM cars. This technological service, which sells for $9.99 a month, offers 71 music channels and 30 talk channels. The vice-president of XM's corporate affairs states: "As cable was to broadcast television, we want to be the same thing to radio". |
| 4. | Levy, S. (2001, December 10). Living in a wireless world. Newsweek, 57-60. |
| This article highlights current or future technological devices that will or already have enabled the consumer to move freely and have constant access to work, school, home or friends. From wireless broadband networks to an upcoming system called Valhalla, which transfers the power of remotes to other devices, the wireless experience is here. The article further addresses uncertain consequences regarding the wireless society, such as privacy and security as well as the idea of always being in contact with the world and "always on" without the luxury of getting away from family or work. |
| 5. | Mathews, J. (2001, October 29). Doing good, doing well. Newsweek, 68J. |
| Troy Williams, at age 29, is the chief executive officer of Questia Media, an online university library of books, which allows subscribers, for a monthly fee, to search tens of thousands of scholarly books and articles for term paper materials. This is Williams' brainchild developed after being disenchanted with the materials available to him at the small college he attended. He felt that all working-class students that aspire to attain a top-notch education deserve to have access to the vast resources that the top universities provide to their students. |
