Finally Action is Being Taken

I have been side tracked from my question that i wanted to answer next about how bands are feeling about my issue because I have found some interestion information.I have just found that starting next week that people are going to be given something known as the “three-strikes” regime. this is when people are selected of wrongfully downloading illegal files offline(not paying). First time caught they will be sent a warning email telling them not to do it again or they will be in trouble.If they ignore that warning and continue to illegally download files off line then they will be suspended of thier internet privliges.And if they continue after that, besides the fact that they're stupid, they will be terminated from the internet useage altogether.France is already doing this. And broadband companies have to enforce this as well. If the companies are caught not enforcing this then they will get in trouuble and possibilly even taken to court."Six million broadband users are estimated to download files illegally every year in this country in a practice that music and film companies claim is costing them billions of pounds in lost revenue annually."(Eliott and national researchers) That is a lot of people coasted a lot of profit loss.Ryan Peterlee,from England brings up a good point. He believes that it is going to be near impossible for this internet piracy to be totally rid of. So he believes that if internet downloading is going to kept illegal then the price of songs and cd's should be dramatically lowered.
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Eliott, Francis . "Internet users could be banned over illegal downloads." timesonline.com (2008):
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Are You Motivated

It's about 2 or 3 weeks into this project and once again I'm stumped.i cant figure out how to get around all the blocked sites and what not. So I am taking a different approach to things and instead of looking everything up online I think im going to start interviewing people on my own because I know alot of skateboarders that are really good and they have there own little routine. So im going to start by interviewing my freinds then work on interviewing sunday skate shop (almost pros) but until then this is where it ends.

Third Blog......

"Estimates of how much music CD sales have suffered from Internet piracy in the last three years vary from about 14% to the figure most of the panelists used -- 30%. National estimates say some 60 million Americans regularly "pirate" copyrighted music online, a practice that's costing the industry at least $700 million in lost CD sales annually." This has to be hard for bands to deal with because this is alotof profit lost basically in cyber space. Other studies show that most people studing this subject states that it is litterally impossible to stop illegal downloaders from downloading because in all reality there really is no way to prevent it. Without a warrent a police official could not even go in your house and if they did say they were going to go in your house all youwould have to do is turn your computer off, its not that hard. The next question that i want to try to answer is how bands are dealing with this. And if they are trying to prevent this what are some ways or tecniques they are using to go about this.And if so is any of this working? Because they might not even be trying because they are still making money even though thier songs are getting acquired without any profit but if i was in the music industry i would still complain because if I am putting the work in then I want all the money that should rightfully be mine. According to AJJ an editorial writer, he thinks that money and music should be kept far away from eachother. He thinks that money should only be taken by artists that need it to better thier work. But if they already have good music they shouyld just let people listen to it free of charge. In my opinion thgis is a nice jesture but, it doesnt help the industry at all. It also is different for him to say that because he doesn't know how it feels to do things and not get paid because he is not a music artist but my next queston to answer is how bands feel about it.




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Konsynski, Benn. "Facing the Music: How Piracy is Transforming the Music Industry." knowledge.emory.edu (2003):
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A.J.J., A.J.J.. "Glasswerk Editorial - 15th October." Glasswerk Editorial.com (2007):
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Can we change anything with fighting?

I have been looking for days for more information, and websites that would fit my topic. Much of the stuff I was finding was from the earlier years of Operation: Iraqi Freedom, but then I came across something that was more of an opinionated site. Though it was not my idea of a good opinion on the war, it was an opinion nonetheless. It was stated that both the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War were both wars of choice. Also, both presidents at the time were saying almost the same thing, in that Johnson and Bush did not want to pull out of the war, because it would show weakness, and give incentive that the United States is not as strong as perceived (St. John).

However there are some questions that come to mind when you think of both wars. Such as, is it fair to the Iraqi or American people, was it fair to the Vietnamese people, and is either war necessary? Some say yes, others say no, but there is a large difference between the Vietnam and Iraqi War, and that is during the Vietnam War, the U.S. was never attacked on their soil, but when 9/11 happened it directly hit America's heartland, one of America's busiest cities, it put the United Stats on its' toes and into disarray. With 9/11 happening all of America was for war and now all of a sudden when casualties are taken, and inflation hits, people are grinding against the war. The people of America need to make up their minds', because without this government, without this freedom given to us as Americans, we couldn't even change our minds' and live to speak about it. One of the reasons Vietnam was unsuccessful was, because at home, America was not getting along, just as it is now. If a country, or a people feel that they want something it must be unanimous to work. But if we pull out now, within six months all of the "changes" we made won't be there, the "democracy" we instilled will be gone, and our stronghold on the Mid-East will be gone, this is all too similar to what happened in Vietnam, so it does make you wonder, can you even change the way people having been living for thousands of years, and is this assimilation to the "American" lifestyle for other countries worth our nations' youth?





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St. John, Ronald Bruce. "Sorry, Mr. President, but Iraq looks a lot like Vietnam." 28 04 2008 .

Further on in the project.........

Now I,m going to try to start answering my initial question, as long as my "helping questions". P2p is known as peer-to-peer networking, which is a way of sharing files. This is used to share illegally downloaded files between people. One of my questions is "Are bands tryint to stop illegal downloading?" And yes the music industry is trying to abolish this. Between 2000 and 2006, this has been responsible for 23% worldwide decline in sales of music CDs.Apple's iTunes service, which has sold just over 2 billion songs since it launched back in 2003, which also represents over 70% of the legal music download business. Big Champagne estimates that over 1 billion tracks are exchanged monthly. This is ridiculus because that is alot of music and by the way none of that is getting paid for so that is not helping the ,usic industry at all is it? And say one person does pay for all of the songs. Okay that person is on the right track. they did help the music industry. Okay now lets say said person has friends that likes the same type of songs that the purchaser has bought. This that person wants to be a nice friend had send him the songs for free over the internet. Now that person has just recieved said music for free. That is the same as downloading for free the way i look at it because that person just got it for free and the music industry is not going to make any prfofit off of it. Thats one thing. Now lets say that person decides to send it to some of his friends and those friends send it to their friends and the line of sending goes on and on and on etc. That was just alot of free music going down the line. Even though that one person did pay for the music, all those other people just got it free of charge. All that right there could have been thousands of dollars in profit if all those people paid for the songs. Now that just started with one person. Now multiply that by how many people int he world do that without even having a starting person that paid. Most people do that without even paying."Russ Crupnick, an analyst at consumer research group NPD, noted a 7% rise in the number of U.S. households engaged in filesharing, and a 24% increase in illegal downloads over the past year"(James).

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james, Delahunty . "Ilegal Music Downloading Still on Rise." afterdawn.com (2007):

work in porgess

Between the ages of 10 and 11, I always would try to ride a skateboard up and down my drive way, but I would always fall. Doing the simplest thing was riding it and i could not even do that. I was wearing pants and a Bam Margera shirt And i remember falling and ripping my pants because i hit a rock. i scrared my knee, ran inside and washed it off then after I did this I went to lay down on my couch and started to watch t.v and then I noticed as I was flipping through the X games were on and it has a part for skateboarders so I watched it. The show made me realize what I can become if I were to stick with it and get better at it as well. A few years later as I got older and started to learn more and more about this sport I became better and better. As I got older I watched more of the X games and I heard Tony hawk say "Im the bird man" After I heard him say this I sat there and said to myself I want to be the next bird man.

At this time I know quite a bit about this sport. I know that it takes alot of concentration and dedication. It's a tough thing to do but when u do it it's worth the frustration. Yea i said it, it's a frustrating thing to do, it also takes time and effort. It's not alway's about hanging with your friends some days its alright to skate and hang out but other days you just want to skate so hard that you get hurt and do it again. Nobody is persfect it takes time and effort to get it all down. One day you can get a certain trick and the next day its like u never did that in your life. The most important part of skateboarding is you need to be dedicated and you have to love the sport or else it's a waste of time. There's alot of things that go around this sport but I have a few questions that are unanswered.

Through out this project I want to know how these skaters become mentally prepared for there long day of skating? How do I become mentally prepared? What are the mental aspects of skating? and what are the physical aspects of skating? In my quest to answer these question's it's going to take hard work and DEDICATION.


I started my search and I was getting frustrated because there was nothing I could use for this project. When I went to Google and searched for answers I didn't find what I was looking for and/or the sites were blocked. After a while I got frustrated and wanted to give up because I thought if I don't find anything now I'm never going to find anything at all. You would think that there would be something on this topic but I guess I was wrong, but then my luck changed I was searching on Google and something great happened. At last my luck has changed and i can begin my research on this topic. It starts like this i typed in skateboard motivation and Bam there it was.


I stumbled across this website that had a whole bunch of little interviews of skateboarding and how they become focused and prepared for skateboarding.Now I focused on the best of the best because obviously there methods work. I went to Google and typed in skateboard motivation and this website had a whole bunch of pros's that were interviewed on this topic.Ryan scheckler was only 13 when he became a pro and he said what motivates him is fast music and the rush of the sport. He also said that people should never give up because that's the first sign of saying you are weak and cant handle the pain and frustration. Now everyone says that music improves there ability and as being a skater I think that's true , I focus more when I'm listening to music. He stated that it all comes from the self-confidence and self motivation, and if you don't believe in your self you mines well not skate at all. Now unfortunately this sport is really hard to become a pro but anything can happen u just have to motivate your self even if your having an off day get back up and do it again.


Cave, Steve. "Ryan Sheckler Interview." 04 18 2008 .

The bound between a son and his mother

Things that I know im willing to give up my life for her,I have give up all my free time and my money. than she wont lose her house for no payments. I got suck into helping my mom because her ex-boyfriend of ten years. Every time that i got to see my mom it always ends up fighting with me, my sister ,and her boyfriend. It is because she was sad that the person she had love for ten years is now a crack head its sad,we went from having evarything to nottin. I tould my mom that i will get her out of this situation,Whatever it takes.I no im not the ownly person that is in this kind of situation,But i want to know how people theses days cope with this.

To find an answer to my question about the revitalization of buffalo i knew i had to find real information. Meaning i had to differentiate the difference between biased opinions and actual fact. In order for Buffalo to become a successful city again we first have to discover the problem. So i began to research that question and really discover the source of Buffalo's major downfall. I decided to look up some important statistics that show the negative aspects of the city. Many of Buffalos jobs in the past were all manufatured based companies. Due to the loss of many of these companies buffalos unemployment rate decreased yearly by six percent. Although many jobs are being created in many different fields in order to try and revolutionize the city and to bring the economy up without the "machining" industry.

Some eye opening facts that i have found was that a little over 30% of the cities people live under the poverty line. We are also americas second poorest cities. We are second in america as well as having the most vacant homes and buildings. Although on a good note we are number one on affordable housing.(wikipedia. 23 Apr 2008 . .)

From the research i have done so far it looks like its not going to be easy but it is still possible. I look to find some more information to help conclude my search and hopefully find the answer to my question

2nd post

I started my search and I was getting frustrated because there was nothing I could use for this project. When I went to Google and searched for answers I didn't find what I was looking for and/or the sites were blocked. After a while I got frustrated and wanted to give up because I thought if I don't find anything now I'm never going to find anything at all. You would think that there would be something on this topic but I guess I was wrong, but then my luck changed I was searching on Google and something great happened. At last my luck has changed and i can begin my research on this topic. It starts like this i typed in skateboard motivation and Bam there it was.


I stumbled across this website that had a whole bunch of little interviews of skateboarding and how they become focused and prepared for skateboarding.Now I focused on the best of the best because obviously there methods work. I went to Google and typed in skateboard motivation and this website had a whole bunch of pros's that were interviewed on this topic.Ryan scheckler was only 13 when he became a pro and he said what motivates him is fast music and the rush of the sport. He also said that people should never give up because that's the first sign of saying you are weak and cant handle the pain and frustration. Now everyone says that music improves there ability and as being a skater I think that's true , I focus more when I'm listening to music. He stated that it all comes from the self-confidence and self motivation, and if you don't believe in your self you mines well not skate at all. Now unfortunately this sport is really hard to become a pro but anything can happen u just have to motivate your self even if your having an off day get back up and do it again.


Cave, Steve. "Ryan Sheckler Interview." 18 04 08 .

first entry on project

To start off, I want to find out how the music industry is making profit while people are illeagally downloading music form the internet.Well that is my main question that i want to answer. I'm going to answer some other questions on the way to finding out my main question. Some other questions i'm going to ask is like how bands and artists are dealing with this money loss.If thy are din anything to stop or try to prevent this and if so what are some techniques that they are using to do so.First lets atart off with some sites that are used to get ilegal music. Limewire is one. All you have to do is type in the name of a song or even the name of the artist to get the entire ealbam for free.Then you could transfer the music downloaded from limewire to Itunes amd then put it on your music devices and there you have it, ilegal music.Thats just one of the many ways to aquire illegal music. Stuies show that some music can be downloaded from the internet antwhere from three hours and earlier as to when the music was origianally going to be released to the public. So that gives the public a chance to litterally steal the music before the artists actually get a chance even atempt to sell it. This is obviously going to be hard for the artists because its a big chunk of profit missing. I know it is not the only way they have to make money but taht is beyond the point because just because they have other ways to make money that doesn't mean that they should work for free. If they are doing the work I think they should get rerwarded for it... as shoud everybody else.

So Far....

I have started my search on the essential question of, what are the similarities between the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War, and how can peace be brought? I used Google as my search engine and typed in similarities between the Vietnam and Iraqi War and there are many websites, and opinions about this certain topic, some of which are perhaps true, and others, maybe not. I found a CNN article from 2005 in which Sen. Chuck Hagel explained the similarities between the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War. Iraq and Vietnam still have more differences than similarities,he said, but "there is a parallel emerging." However, in my opinion, the longer we stay in Iraq, the more it will turn into Vietnam. For example, both were/are wars you cannot win, because you do not know who the enemy is, and the cause of us going to war, whether it was McCarthyism, stopping the spread of communism or fighting "terror"is impossible. The United States is supposedly the police of the world, but we cannot police what other countries, or people want to do. "The longer we stay in Iraq, the more similarities will start to develop,meaning essentially that we are getting more and more bogged down, taking more and more casualties, more and more heated dissension and debate in the United States," Hagel said ("Hagel: Iraq"). Even though this is only one article it was very helpful, in that it was informative and from a reliable source.

This topic has a lot of information on it and i realize now that this will not be such an easy question to do, but I am not only interested in finding out more about this topic, but i also look forward to finding the answer to my essential question of, what are the similarities between the Vietnam war and the Iraqi war, and if so how can peace be brought?

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"Hagel: Iraq growing more like Vietnam." 19 08 2005 17 04 2008)http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/18/hagel.iraq/

THE SOUND..

I remember when i was younger i was at my first wake, the room was silent. I personally did not really know who exactly had died i sort've was dragged along by my parents. Besides the sound of people praying underneath there breath and low cry's nothing else could really be heard. But eventually then began to play a song which happened to be "Say Goodbye" by Boyz 2 Men. As the song proceeded to play i look around and noticed more and more people began to cry. Some seemed that they were holding in more than they can bear.soon it seemed like everybody was in an even deeper mourning. hear is when i began to wonder what exactly happened that turned the entire mood of the crowed. i realized then its music! The theme of the song which touches on the difficulties of saying good bye is what moved the crowed and some how touched everyone. Hear is when i seen the power of music. This is what brings me to research more on how can music really effect a person.

I always had an interest of music since i was younger and had seen music change peoples lives. like young girls who were in trouble joining church choires to turn arouned there lives.i know that many people look for music as a form of expression such as writing songs or through poetry. Or like drummer Travis Barker who says playing drums is the only form of stress relief that actually works for him. Music can have many positive effects on people but could also be scrutinized as the cause of many bad things. For example columbine which one of the causes was supposably due to the music of Marilyn Mason.

For reasons like these i find my topic to be very interesting and i hope that further research would get me closer to the answers that i seek

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Shmueli, Sandra . "'Flash mob' craze spreads." cnn 08 09 2003 14 04 2008 .

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dickinson, tim. "The Machinery of Hope:Inside the grass-roots field operation of Barack Obama, who is transforming the way political campaigns are run." rollingstone.com 20 3 2008 15 4 2008 .

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Shmueli, Sandra. "'Flash mob' craze spreads." cnn.com/technology August 8, 2003 march 15 2008 .

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Wikipedia, Wikipedia. "Global warming." Global warming n/a march 15 2008 .

Citations

Patrick Dickty Matt Martin
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Shmueli, Sandra. "'Flash mob' craze spreads." 08 08 2003 15 04 2008 .

"Global Warming." 15 04 2008 .

Before the Search

Recently, I have enlisted in the United States Navy and thought that since our country is in the war, and I enlisted then I should learn more about. Because, the more I know about this topic the better off I think i would be so I cannot be lied to, and so I could also form my own opinion. Also, this war is a big deal, yet according to a recent survey eighty percent of Americans did not know tat we were nearing almost four thousand soldiers in death in Iraq, but more than eighty percent knew who the last person voted off American Idol was. With this media coverage, more than there was during the Vietnam War, people should know more about it, and what is going on. And the people that are paying attention to the war are protesting it most of the time, which is similar to the Vietnam War as well. Therefore, I would like to answer the question of what are the similarities between the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War, and how can peace be brought? With this question many other questions come to mind, such as, what were the reasons we went into both wars, why was the United States involved, what do people say could have been done differently to bring Vietnam and the current war on terror to a better conclusion, how can peace be achieved, and what were the problems with both wars?

This topic has always interested me, I know that part of the reason we are in the Iraqi war is not only because of 9/11, but to attempt to bring democracy to the middle east. I also know that we attempted to do the same thing in Vietnam, because the United States wanted to contain communism. However, the way I look at it, both of these wars have a lot in common and I would like to find out more and further my knowledge on what i already know, and to form a better, more educated decision.

The Mental Part's of Skateboarding

pregame intro




Between the ages of 10 and 11, I always would try to ride a skateboard up and down my drive way, but I would always fall. Doing the simplest thing was riding it and i could not even do that. I was wearing pants and a bam margera shirt And i remember falling and ripping my pants because i hit a rock. i scraoed my knee, ran inside and washed it off then after I did this I went to lay down on my couch and started to watch t.v and then I noticed as I was flipping through the X games were on and it has a part for skateboarders so I watched it. The show made me realize what I can become if I were to stick with it and get better at it as well. A few years later as I got older and started to learn more and more about this sport I became better and better. As I got older I watched more of the X games and I heard Tony hawk say "Im the bird man" After I heard him say this I sat there and said to myself I want to be the next bird man.

At this time I know quite a bit about this sport. I know that it takes alot of concentration and dedication. It's a tough thing to do but when u do it it's worth the frustration. Yea i said it, it's a frustrating thing to do, it also takes time and effort. There's alot of things that go around this sport but I have a few questions that are unanswered.

Through out this project I want to know how these skaters become mentally prepared for there long day of skating? How do I become mentally prepared? What are the mental aspects of skating? and what are the physical aspects of skating? In my quest to answer these question's it's going to take hard work and DEDICATION.

Music Industry

Other Ways of Generating Profit

..............The topic that interests me is music.Music is good for everything. No matter your situation that you're in the is music for it.Different music is good for different things. Slower music is good for relaxing while on the other and more hardcore music like metal is good for pumping yourself up for something such as a big game. Obviously there is romantic music as well but like i said, there is music for every occasion. Metal bands such as Bullet for my Valentine can get you pumped while R and B might be able to like calm someone down. People are downloading music illegally. I don't know anybody that actually pays for the music because there are so many sites that you can just get them for free off of. Some sites are like limewire or you could transfer music from itunes and if you are not paying for it then the artists are not making any profit off of it and if you think about it, its not really fair to the people that did the work. I've always been interested in music since i was younger so i thought this would be a good issue to look into, seeing that how this is a rising issue and i honestly can't see it stopping any time in the near future. So by looking into this i hope that i can find out if there is being anything done to prevent this or at least slow it down on a major level.

..........There are going to be some other questions that i am going to use in my essay to find out more on my main question. Is the music industry taking any action on this? If so what are some of their actions? How are some bands/artists dealing with this? Is this affecting their profit making on a major level? When people get caught illegally downloading do they actually get in trouble or do they just get a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again? These are just a few of the questions that i am going to use to in my research. I'm sure i will think of more and answer them as i proceed deeper in this project.I would like to know what are some ways the music industry generates profit seeing that how many people just download their work off line free of charge. This is known as illegally downloading music.