Piracy is an increasingly popular means for people to obtain essentially any kind of virtual media for free. However, is it really free in every sense of the word? ... Just how much does this growing phenomenon affect the global economy, and is there realistically anything at all that can be done to prevent it? ... How it works is companies make investments in films before it is actually made, which are commonly referred to as "pre-sales ". ... This watermark will oversee how a song may be copied and played and manage whatever fees may be incurred when songs are copied to a computer. ...

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This poem tells about his boyhood on the Long Island shore and how was his desire to be a poet. ... There, he learned how to set type under Patriot's foreman printer William Hartshorne. ... He wrote on topics where he criticized how the police rounded up prostitutes and again criticizing the public schools and the bad usage of the public founds. ... His mayor themes would be racism, liberty of rights and expression and also of individualism, emphasizing in his writings the word "I". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Critics of private prisons believe that they actually create an incentive for legislators to promote prison expansion because private corporations building facilities at their own expense legislators can bypass having to go to voters for the approval of bond issues to obtain the needed construction funds. ... Other important questions are: How does this private interest affect policy-making? How does the incentive to cut costs affect safety? ... Microsoft hires inmates to package software in Oregon and Washington. ...

• Word Count: 3333
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

CHAPTER 1 Introduction The year 2000 computer issue is defined by Zetlin (1998) as "the result of a universal programming standard that records dates as six digits rather than eight, using only two digits for the year. Software that uses two-digit year fields (that is, almost all of it) will ...

• Word Count: 7430
• Approx Pages: 30
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate