From the Paper "This research develops a business plan for a prerecorded video cassette vending rental business. The elements of the plan are (a) a statement of the reasons for starting the proposed business, (b) a description of the business concept, (c) an identification of the target market, (d) a description of the business to be started, (e) a promotional plan for the proposed business, and (f) a personnel plan for the proposed business. Additionally, an estimate is presented of the start-up cash which will be required.
Reasons for Starting a Business
The motivations of the entrepreneur for starting the proposed business are a personal interest in prerecorded video cassettes, and the relatively low barriers to entry which ... "
Abstract This paper highlights three types of technological advances that threaten to destroy the music industry. Of special focus is the Latin American music industry, which has been hardest hit by these advances. The paper points out that the need to address these problems, cited as music piracy, the availability of home digital recording equipment, and peer-to-peer file sharing on the Internet is critical, since it threatens the overall existence of that industry. The paper continues by giving specifics of the recording industry decline and by explaining why the Latin American music industry is particularly affected. Finally, the paper devotes some discussion on possible ways to approach the problem.
Specifics of the Recording Industry Decline
Fighting Music Piracy
Global Connections and the Motive Behind the Money
Offsetting the Power of Consumers to Burn Personal CD?s
Shutting Down Peer-to-Peer Networks or Turning Them into Revenue
Channels
From the Paper "According to Buckley (2000) while U.S. recording industry officials wring their hands over Napster, the worldwide black market for illicitly copied music is growing even faster. Sales of pirated music topped half a billion units last year and cost the music industry $5 billion in lost revenues. As of the turn of the 21st century, one in three CDs sold around the world last year were copies, churned out in pirate's hidden factories that can press up to 100,000 discs a day, according to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries. In Brazil, Latin America's music piracy leader, ?40 percent of CDs and 99 percent of cassettes sold were illegal copies, a total value of $180 million,? said IFPI. ?In Mexico, the 1999 pirate music market was worth $70 million, or 40 percent of all music sold, the agency reported.? (Buckley, 2000)"
Abstract This paper describes a fictitious adventure, which starts with a classified ad saying that the job would have travel opportunities, but never in the author's wildest dreams did he imagine that he would get to fly to Seoul, South Korea. The author's character carries a suitcase, which appears to have a few movies tapes, bootlegged fresh off the streets of New York,but the tapes and cassettes were suspicious looking, with cheap masking tape displaying the title in thick black sharpie. The police put a tape into a TV/VCR combo, and instead of "The Little Mermaid," there was a man standing in front of a group of 15 people with a North Korean flag behind drawing a map of the DMZ and of tunnels running throughout it. The story concludes that the day after the invasion was supposed to happen, the character was able to reach the American Embassy and get a plane home.
From the Paper "The reason I was so worried about the way my bag was handled was because it held very important...well, items, that I was to transport for my new job. The thing was that I wasn't allowed to know what items I was taking back and forth, so I couldn't risk even the smallest possibility of harming them. Sure, the job sounded a little shady at first, but once I learned I would be making $10,000 a week, plus free flight and hotel accommodations, I couldn't pass it up. Not to mention the hefty sum of student loans I still needed to pay off."
Abstract The paper discusses how Christopher Celeste, founder and President of Findaway World, recognized that unlike most products, technology was actually making storytelling more difficult, rather than less. The paper describes how cassettes, CDs, Internet downloads, all with competing technological formats were flooding the marketplace. The simplicity of buying a book and not worrying about whether or not you had the right hardware and software available to enjoy it, was becoming a thing of the past. The paper focuses on Findaway's primary product, the Playaway system, that was built on rectifying this challenge.
From the Paper "A long time ago, storytelling used to be quite simple. "Someone spoke. Someone listened." Then somewhere along the line, technology actually made it more complicated. ("About Us"). At least that's according to Findaway, the leading innovator of the world's newest way to listen to stories."
