Apr 17
asides
ebooks, amazon, apple, and the "agency" model in the news this week
copyright, piracy, file sharing, information ownership, malware, and all that
Big topic - we'll skip around. Please do explore the readings I'll be posting,
and follow up on topics that interest you from there. Come to class ready to discuss.
internet censorship
information ownership and copyright
Concepts: copyright, patent, license, trade mark, fair use, DRM, identify theft
file sharing
usenet - predates web
- discuss what it was & what it is now
- groups.google.com
bittorrent - protocol & clients
Aside: "URL encoding" or "percent encoding"
(see wikipedia.org/Percent-encoding)
is a way to put special characters in a URL,
using two ascii hex digits
%3A :
%2F /
Aside: The Scene
Aside: malware in peer-to-peer files
