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Multilevel Mock Reading 2
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A. Have you ever downloaded a film or an album from the internet without paying? The chances are that the answer is yes. Well, you may be surprised to know that – even though you haven’t got an eye-patch and a parrot on your shoulder – that makes you a pirate! B. The practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted content such as music or software, digitally and without permission, is known as online piracy. The principle behind piracy pre-dated the creation of the Internet, as we shall see, but its online popularity arose alongside the internet. Despite its explicit illegality in many developed countries, online piracy is still widely practised, largely due to the ease with which it can be done and the difficulty of preventing it. C. One of the earliest recorded acts of unauthorised content copying was in the 1770s, when fourteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited the Sistine Chapel and heard Allegri's Miserere being performed. After having heard it once, Mozart went back to his hotel and transcribed the entire piece from memory. Two days later he returned to the chapel to proofread his transcription while listening again to the performance. Strangely enough, nobody (except perhaps Allegri!) seemed to mind this copycat behaviour. D. Historically speaking, there have been a number of advances which have had the dual effect of facilitating legitimate sharing of information while also enabling copyright to be violated more easily. One of the first of these was, of course, the printing press. It may surprise you to hear that in the 1500s these so-called ‘book pirates’ made most of their profits by reproducing various editions of the Bible. Many people read religious books at that time, and pirated copies sold fast. E. Everything changed with the advent of computers, especially when prices dropped and they became accessible to many people. With the release of Napster in 1999 there was an enormous upsurge in online piracy of films, TV programmes and especially music. Napster allowed peer-to- peer file-sharing among its users, which meant easy access to free music. It was ordered to shut down by a federal judge in 2000. However, for many content-producers this was too late, as so many users had already got into the habit of piracy. F. Following Napster’s shutdown, many other popular file-sharing programs arose that are still widely used today. Digital piracy is an ongoing global problem that significantly impacts consumers, media and content-oriented industries and other enterprises. It’s difficult to put an exact figure on the total economic loss caused by digital piracy, but it’s massive. Moreover, many jobs have been lost. Julia Stoll from Statistica.com predicts that the global online TV and movie industry will lose 51.6 billion U.S. dollars to piracy in 2022. Download 458.74 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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