Therefore download services is where you purchase any type of service off the internet such as audio files like music or films; this are available from sites such as ITunes. The popularity of people using download services today has dramatically increased over many years, it is almost normal for the people of today’s generation to be using download services instead of shopping elsewhere. There are many other types of download services available, these will be discussed in detail below.
What is streaming?
Streaming means listening to music or watching video in ‘real time’, instead of physically downloading a file to your computer and saving it to watch whenever desired.
With internet videos and webcasts of live events, there is no file to download as it is happening at that exact moment, just a continuous stream of data.
The reason why people and most broadcasters prefer streaming is because it’s hard for most users to save the content and distribute it illegally.
Why do people illegally download music?
The music industry is facing a crisis because of the high amount of young people downloading music. This problem has now grown so big that the numbers of young people who download music from illegal file-sharing websites sucj as LimeWire (which has now been shut down) outnumber those using legal services such as ITunes.
Thousands of people download music illegally because they don't realize the harm it does and the risk they are enhances on their computer, these people are only thinking about themselves. When you illegally download music you are taking well earned money from the artist who rightfully earned it. Although some people only illegally download music is if they cannot find it on for sale on ITunes; however, this does still not make it right to do so. Most people today download music illegally because they may no money to purchase certain items.
Downloading Audio
Audio downloads being made through the internet offers a huge advantage to people today, they no longer have to leave the comfort of their own home in order to buy and receive their favourite forms of entertainment; such as films. There are now many websites in which you can download and sync audio to your own personal PC on the internet. This is done by the company who runs the websites because they know that this method of buying entertainment offers much higher rates of convenience to a customer and therefore the profits are significantly higher.
The four main types of audio downloading today are music, films, games and e-books. People today mainly tend to shop online as it is a much easier and quicker option, now there is no need to worry about having to go out and buy luxuries as almost all types of entertainment is available to purchase online. Also having e-books available to students online saves them the worry of having to go out and buy study and revision guides and text books as they can now be downloading straight from the internet as well.
Books, Newspapers, Magazines
The option of downloading newspapers and magazines via the internet has been rising in popularity over the past few years. This is because people are always wondering what is happening in the world today and its common affairs, the public like to be up to date with what happening. In order to do this, if there was not the option to browse the recent news and stories online then people would have to go out on a regular basis to buy the most recent paper based newspapers and magazines. This is highly inconvenient for most people as they are always busy doing various things such as working. In addition, there are also people who do not have the option to go out and buy things for themselves whether they would like to or not, such as elderly or disabled people. Therefore, making it possible for anyone to browse the news online has been introduced mainly for the least fortunate members of the public, and it has become more and more popular as technology has become much more advanced as years go by.
Producing newspapers books and magazines come at a very high price today; they are all made with paper, therefore, the advantage being the highly significant savings made from having them available to browse online.
The Kindle
A kindle is an electronic book with a screen that is hand held by a reader. You first purchase the kindle hardware from Amazon; you are then open to the option of purchasing thousands of downloadable books. The main advantage of a Kindle is the fact that it can hold a considerable amount of books and takes up next to no space at all, and is a lot easier to carry around than a pile of hardback books. The Amazon Kindle enable users to shop for and download many different genre books, browse and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media types. But in order to do so you have to be connected to a nearby wireless network.
Maps & Manuals
Having maps available online saves people at lot of problems. If someone who is travelling somewhere that there are not too well known with a map is always useful. Therefore if that person owns a smart phone or tablet with internet access they can get a map up of anywhere in the world they desire at that exact moment in time. This is a great advantage to people if they are lost and don’t own a paper map, it is not always possible for people to go out and buy an actual paper map before going on an unknown journey, especially if the journey was an unexpected, spur or the moment thing.
However, not everyone has internet access on their phone, which means an online map is most defiantly going to be an option for them, this being a disadvantage for the people who requires directions.
Having manuals available to us online is always useful. When anyone purchases a new product or item that is reasonably complex; they do not always think to keep the instruction manuals. This later on resulting in confusion of how to operate something, for example, if it falls apart. So companies now think to advertise manuals online just in case this happens to someone, this saves a lot of time for companies as they won’t get customers calling up for help or visiting the shop to complain.
Downloading Software
Instead of having to go out to you local computing shop to by software, you can now purchase it online. This is good because if your software runs out or you realise you need a new type of software in order to do something important, being able to buy software online is highly convenient and saves a lot of time.
Downloading Pictures/photos
Today it is now possible to download photos that have been taken by a company and print out the selection you want and like yourself. This saves time and everything is being controlled by you once your photos have been uploading and are available to you via the internet. You can save these photos to your own PC and change the size and edit them if you desire with no extra costs from the company.
Downloadable tickets
The online ticket brings the ticket counter to you at home. You can now purchase your tickets online and print them out yourself. People today can be quite impatient, so rather than waiting for tickets to come through the post they prefer to download them straight from their PC and print. Therefore, as this has become the preferred option of retrieving tickets today, the idea of printing them has become popular and more websites now have the option to do so. An advantage of doing this is there is a lot of time and effort saved. You don’t have to sit around pondering about when your tickets are going to arrive; also the postage cost for both you and the company is saved.
The main reason this is preferred today is because, rather than having the worry that your tickets may turn up late or not turn up at all, if you can print them yourself; you have the guarantee of receiving you tickets on time. After purchasing from any ticket shop or website, you will be provided with the online ticket on the Internet as a PDF file to download.
Copyright
Copyright is a form of protection that must always be provided to the authors of any original work belonging to them, this could include work such things as literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intelligent creations. These creations can be both published and unpublished, it doesn’t matter, and if they are copied it is still illegal. Copyright does not protect ideas of any sort; it only protects the specific and original idea.
Copyright within the music industry
Copyright protects every artist involved in the music industry. This could involve aspiring artists who have only recently become involved with the music industry or a successful best selling, award winning artist. Copyright supports both local independent recording companies to the large multinational producer. In addition, copyright ensures that all the parties that have had any part in creating the music are guaranteed to be rewarded for their hard work.
Copyright has the right and responsibility to protect the true value behind the sale of any musical recording. These rights represent and reward the creativity and hard work of those who create and sell music.
Tablets
A tablet computer is an operating system such as the extremely popular IPad. The IPad consists of a thin, touch-screen operated system, it has become the weapon of choice for many computer users as they offer a great experience when browsing the web or using one of the thousands of apps available. Apps include everything from games to specialized word processors, search engines and social networking sites. Apps make use of a tablet's touch screen; this delivers an experience that a user could not retrieve from a typical computer.
There are many advantages to having a tablet; such as forward and rear-facing cameras which can be taken and used anywhere, these photos are also extremely high quality.
However, there are also disadvantages to owning a tablet, they are considerably bigger than the average Smartphone which makes it harder to carry around place, this equal high inconvenient. There is a huge risk of breaking a tablet as they are reasonable heavy and are much more delicate as they have a large touch screen, this could easily crack under too much pressure. Tablets have the ability to do nothing more than the average Smartphone yet so many people today feel the need to have one as well as a Smartphone, this just equals having to pay out more for near enough the same experience.
E-readers
Electronic devices today are made purely for our entertainment needs; the people of today are starting to depend on technology such as e-readers. It will be no shock when the way to read books in the future is through the use of an e-reader. Reading books now is unnecessary, you can now hold you own portable reading device within in the palm of your hand with these new and clever technological gadgets. People love to use their e-reader rather then read an actual book, considering an e-reader can store more than one book in one tiny device. They hold a variety of features that make the overall experience of reading rather enjoyable.
There are two main sellers of e-readers today, these being the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. Each of these highly advanced items of new technology offers a variety of features which include the ability to hook up to a computer to back up your information, also all reading files can then be downloaded and transferred. Most e-reader devices hold up to 200 books, memory cards are available to purchase for your device if you need more storage space.
What are the advantages of an E-reader?
E-readers have a wide range of options compared to ordinary reading e-books; it is possible to get online versions of your favorite magazine or newspaper that you like to read on a regular basis. Additionally there is a magnification tool to enhance and enlarge the text you are reading. Although, there is a variety of different other tools available for you to try out and use, e-readers hold the ability to bookmark pages, turn pages back and forth and highlight parts of the text. But the main advantage being all of the above is inclusive within one small compact, convenient and comfortable portable device.
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