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Piracy Annotated Bibliography

The annotated bibliography summarizes four sources on the topic of piracy in different media industries. The first source discusses how piracy helped build industries like Hollywood, radio, television and music. The second source explains that piracy has been an issue globally and hurt industries through illegal sales. The third source outlines how music piracy evolved with new technologies like cassette tapes, CDs and file sharing sites. It also offers a counter argument that some piracy may help publicity. The fourth source presents different views on music piracy, including that some college students do not see it as wrong and that it hurts the industry by reducing paid music sales.

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Piracy Annotated Bibliography

The annotated bibliography summarizes four sources on the topic of piracy in different media industries. The first source discusses how piracy helped build industries like Hollywood, radio, television and music. The second source explains that piracy has been an issue globally and hurt industries through illegal sales. The third source outlines how music piracy evolved with new technologies like cassette tapes, CDs and file sharing sites. It also offers a counter argument that some piracy may help publicity. The fourth source presents different views on music piracy, including that some college students do not see it as wrong and that it hurts the industry by reducing paid music sales.

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Mark Rodriguez

Professor Dylan Altman


English 113A
10 Nov. 2014
Annotated Bibliography

Lessig, Lawrence. "Wired 12.03: Some Like It Hot." Wired 12.03: Some Like It
Hot.Penguin Group (USA) Inc., n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2014
Lessigs article on piracy states that Hollywood, radio, cable television, and the
music industry was built on piracy. Lessig goes a little into depth about how and
why the media industry was built by piracy. He also includes examples of some
things that are and can be pirated in this day in age. The way Lessig gives us
information on what kinds of things were done so that the media industry would
become successful is helpful in numerous ways. This article is a helpful source to
me because there is examples of what types of piracy helped bring up the media
industry on the west coast. Before I read this article by Lessig, I wouldnt have
thought that the Hollywood, radio, cable television, and the music industry were
built upon piracy.

Lewis, Jon. ""If You Can't Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything":
Piracy, Privacy, and Public Relations in 21st Century Hollywood." JSTOR.
University of Texas Press on Behalf of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies,
2007. Web. 8 Nov. 2014.

In Lewiss section about piracy in the movie industry, he explains that piracy has
been a problem not only for America but also in other places around the world
such as China and Russia. Lewis goes on and throws in examples and court cases
where industries break the piracy laws and what the outcomes were. Lewis also
explains that if something that we own doesnt actually belong to us because it
can be pirated and sold. This article was helpful because it helped me understand
what the movie industry was going through during the years of 2000-2002.

Cusic, Don, Gregory K. Faulk, and Robert P. Lambert. "Technology and Music
Piracy: Has the Recording Industry Lost Sales?" JSTOR. Popular Culture
Association in the South, Oct. 2005. Web. 09 Nov. 2014.
Cusic, Gregory, and Roberts article about piracy in the music industry is very
interesting. These three talk about how piracy began in the music industry once
the cassette tape was invented but went out of hand once the Compact Disc was
created. The boom of downloading illegal music began in 1999 when napster was
created because people were able to download music for free on the Internet.
Napster soon was put out of business because of the lawsuit that was filed against
them but many other peer to peer sharing sites were created. Cusic, Gregory, and
Robert bring up a counter argument that illegal downloading of an artists songs
and albums was good publicity. This counter argument can possibly help me out
with my essay because I might write about the positivity of piracy throughout the
media industry. This source let me see the way that piracy on music started and
changed throughout a couple of years of technology.

Woolley, D. J. (2010). THE CYNICAL PIRATE: HOW CYNICISM EFFECTS


MUSIC PIRACY. Academy of Information and Management Sciences
Journal, 13(1), 31-43. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/763259570?accountid=7285
In Woolleys article about music piracy, he talks about the many ways people
interpret piracy. Woolley mentions college students and how they feel about
downloading music illegally. He also adds in the fact that music piracy is
destroying the music industry because people are getting their music for free
online instead of going to the store and buying them. I find this source very
helpful because Woolley brings in a couple perspectives on the topic of music
piracy.

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