Acronyms
Legal Issues
File Sharing
Streaming
Music Piracy
100
This group represents the interests of the movie industry.
What is MPAA?
100
A bill currently going through the senate to give government and copyright holders tools to curb access to rogue websites.
What is PROTECT IP Act.
100
This is one of the earliest, but lesser-used forms of online file sharing.
What is HTTP/FTP?
100
A video sharing website that has popularized stars such as Justin Beiber.
What is Youtube?
100
This company was sued by heavy metal band Metallica for copyright infringement.
What is Napster?
200
A bill currently under review by congress regarding copy write enforcement on the internet.
What is SOPA?
200
An invisible layer of software that bodyguards a computer file and limits what you can and can't do with it.
What is DRM?
200
A server that could only handle one connection at a time through a phone line.
What is BBS?
200
This service has the highest downstream internet use in the United States.
What is Netflix?
200
This type of file sharing service was popularized by Napster and KaZaA in the late 90's
What is Peer to Peer?
300
This trade organization represents the major record labels in the U.S and has levied many lawsuits against music pirates.
What is the RIAA?
300
An international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the U.S.
What is the EFF?
300
This is a file sharing website that pirates use to distribute files over HTTP.
What is MegaUpload?
300
This on-demand streaming service allows you to watch television shows from fox, ABC, NBC and CBS.
What is Hulu?
300
This file sharing protocol allows users to download fragments of a file from many different sources.
What is Bittorrent?
400
This legislation allows copyright holders to force websites to remove copy-written material.
What is the DMCA?
400
This trade group representing a large number of software makers principle activity is to stop online piracy.
What is the BSA?
400
This was a network that followed the same idea as Napster but used a different networking protocol to achieve the same goal.
What is Limewire?
400
The type of transfer protocol used in streaming.
What is HTTP?
400
This online music store revolutionized digital music and altered the landscape of popular music by shifting the market from albums to singles.
What is iTunes?
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