Word: downloading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will expand the market, I said. People will hear songs that they never heard before, and they will rush to the stores to buy the CDs. After all, nobody's going to download a whole album. Artists will be able to cut out the oppressive record companies (except, of course, for those fortunate artists signed to the enlightened companies that are part of the greater AOL Time Warner family) and get the audience and material rewards they deserve. Everyone will be rich, happy, fat and - did I mention rich...
...that, with my moral compass fully demagnetized, I began to download. I started with a strict set of rules: I would download only things, say Springsteen bootlegs, that I could not buy anyway. From there it was a short step to saying I would take only things that I already had copies of, then to saying I could take things I wished I had copies...
...reach everybody," Bennett has changed his mind. He announced last week that he will lead the nation's first for-profit online elementary and secondary school, called K12, that will begin enrolling students in grades K-2 next fall and will eventually have students in every grade. Enrollees can download course material and exchange e-mail messages with a teacher. Bennett, who refers to himself as K12's "principal," has recruited Harvard computer scientist (and Unabomber victim) David Gelernter as his chief technology adviser, and is currently hiring a teaching staff. Gelernter has also criticized online teaching as mostly "games...
...others, including musicians and record companies. The recording industry has sued Napster, alleging that those who use it are doing just that. There is as yet no final judgment in that case, but another federal court has ruled that MP3.com has violated federal law by enabling users to download copyrighted music. No one should be surprised if the recording industry persuades a court that Napster is liable under the same standard...
...legal restriction on a student's access to the Harvard network would be a serious problem. Harvard cannot insulate its students from the consequences of copyright infringement, and students should understand that they proceed at their own risk when they download copyrighted music...