Internet and Society

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In this article, the writer notes that the Internet has greatly altered the culture in which we live, from creating global communication to exponentially increasing the quantity and availability of information. The writer further points out that the challenge to the culture has been phenomenal, as the positive and negative changes are as diverse as the content of the web itself. The writer notes that these changes include positive ones and negative ones and have even expanded the nature of crime, especially with regard to entertainment. The writer concludes that the foundations of the potential for the good and the bad of the changes that the Internet creates in the entertainment industry are well founded in the culture already but have yet to realize the full extent of the need for concern and alteration.

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"In the pros list there is a significant increase in the availability of entertainment resources, as the industry can link information to consumers in mass quantity and also quickly reach the consumer with media advertisement and image and media representations of new products. Over the last 20 or so years the positive potential of the internet has proliferated the expansions of the services."
"Yet, there is also a huge potential for cons, in the question. The music industry and the movie industry are forever changed by a completely new manner of piracy of materials that can significantly reduce revenue. Online gambling has created a situation of potential danger for those with dangerous gambling habits and video sharing of independent videos can open many web users up to exposure to illicit information they might otherwise have not been exposed to. Danger for unwanted exposure as well as a reduction in traditional means of revenue for the entertainment industries is only two of the most basic and serious potential negative changes to the entertainment industry that are a direct result of the Internet."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Goldsmith, Jack L. "3 Against Cyberanarchy." Who Rules the Net? Internet Governance and Jurisdiction. Ed. Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2003. 31-70.
• Mann, Charles C. "The Heavenly Jukebox." The Atlantic Monthly Sept. 2000: 39.
• Nicholson, Laura J., Tom F. Shebar, and Meredith R. Weinberg. "Computer Crimes." American Criminal Law Review 37.2 (2000): 207.

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