On 5/6/02 12:01:00 PM, Ryan Murphey wrote:
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>Exercise 2.1: Finding the
>Questions
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>In the space below, write the
>title of your tentative topic
>(e.g.
> Internet addiction)
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>1. File Sharing, and its
>effects on the independant
>music industry
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>Briefly state why you chose
>this topic.
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>2. I origionally wanted to
>research some aspect of the
>independant music industry.
>WHile brainstorming my initial
>questions, I asked, "how does
>file sharing effect the
>Independant music industry
>differently than the
>Mainstream?". This topic is
>more controversial, and more
>interesting than anything else
>I came up with...and,
>therefore, I decided to make
>it the topic of my paper.
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>Spend about five minutes
>listing what you already know
>(if
>anything) about your topic.
>For example, are you aware of
>any
>interesting facts, common
>misconceptions, your own
>assumptions, important people
>or institutions involved, key
>schools of thought, the extent
>of the problem, current
>trends,
> etc.?
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>3. Independant musicians,
>in general, are more
>supportive of file sharing.
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>File sharing provides more
>access to bands that do not
>get mainstream radio or
>television promotion.
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>Burned CDs deteriorate faster
>than professionally pressed
>ones, and are not universally
>readable.
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>IT is impossible to regulate
>file sharing on the interenet.
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>Currently, there are many
>different sites superior to
>Napster that have not been
>shut down.
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>Now spend at least fifteen
>minutes brainstorming a list
>of
>questions about your topic
>you’d love to learn the
>answers to.
>Make this list as long as you
>can, and don’t worry whether
>every
>question is a good one.
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>4. How have CD sales changed
>for Independent artists since
>the introduction of file
>sharing?
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>What artists support it?
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>What mainstream artists
>support file sharing?
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>What other ethical problems
>exist related to file sharing?
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>What actions can be taken to
>prevent musical piracy?
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>How much of an impact has file
>sharing had on the mainstream
>industrys sales?
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>Do people more commonly use
>file sharing to discover new
>artists, or to pirate CDs?
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>If you’re working in a
>computer lab (or generating
>hard copies of
>the exercise), your instructor
>may ask you to comment on
>other
>students’ responses to Steps
>1-4. Focus particularly on
>what
>your classmates did in the
>fourth step. For each you
>view, do two
>things: add a question you
>would like answered about the
>student’s topic, and mark the
>question you find most
>intriguing.
>5.
>A.) Do companies like Kazaa and Napster believe that they are or aren't affecting the music industry?

B.) How much of an impact has file
>sharing had on the mainstream
>industrys sales?
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