CHAPTER 6

Questions to Consider

1. Is the RIAA’s strong stand on copyright infringement helping or hurting the music recording industry?

RIAA is strongly against piracy, which holds the issue of megaupload. And I think they contributed a big help to the music recording industry lead to a jump in legal purchases as customers will turn to original music uploads.

2. Could an ISP’s implementation and enforcement of the RIAA’s multitier strategy have a negative impact on the ISP?

Both sides refer their institution that is related to internet services, but the ISP don’t look their selves to involved from those internet piracies they just provide and established a good internet connection, so there is no negative impact on the ISP from RIAA’s multitier strategy.

Lotus vs Borland

Questions to Consider

1. Go to your school’s computer lab or a PC software store and experiment with current versions of any two of the Quattro, Excel, or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet programs. Write a brief paragraph summarizing the similarities and differences in the “look and feel” of these two programs.

       They have significant differences, Quattro Pro is a Freeware. Lotus 123 is a DOS-program. MS Excel is by far the best from the choices because the script languages like VB-Script is compatible and powerful.

2. The courts took several years to reverse their initial decision and rule in favor of Borland. What impact did this delay have on the software industry? How might things have been different if Borland had received an initial favorable ruling?

              In this accident will result into unfavorable court, for allowing Borland product for several years to the public without knowing its infringement.

3. Assume that you are the manager of Borland’s software development. With the benefit of hindsight, what different decisions would you have made about Quattro?

              If given the privilege to be the manager of the Quattro and i already know that it is illegal, I will resign my employment even if I owned a large amount of income every month, from time to time that the company that you were working on will be facing an investigations in court you are assuredly obliged to face the court as a manager in your company and aside to face the court you will be put in prison.