Thursday, October 1, 2009

How to solve digital piracy


You should know the basics of E-commerce from the IB course

Advantages to businesses include – possibility of wider customer base, the ability to update product information quickly, the ability to offer a wider product range etc
Disadvantages to businesses include - possibility that so called 'aggregate sites' drive prices down to the 'lowest common denominator' etc

Advantages to customers include – increased convenience of online shopping, a wider range of products and stores to choose from etc.

Disadvantages to customers include the possibility of credit card fraud, sites that download harmful spyware to computers etc.

A related topic is the problems of illegal downloading and filesharing faced by music and film producers. This Guardian file sharing link is worth checking out: there are arguments for and against digital file sharing. You will see that there is still no agreement on how business can preoct its products from illegal copying

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