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- Library Research 015
- December 2006
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- Music and Movies have been around for centuries.
- Music began in nature and inspired man to create organized sounds and
use them to entertain.
- Movies were first shown in a zoetrope, a cylinder object that contains
paper with images and holes on the walls for viewing.
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- Movies are made by using film and motion picture cameras.
- It costs millions of dollars to make one movie.
- A movie crew consists of hundreds of people.
- They often take months to shoot one movie because of the locations.
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- Movies are also shown on internet websites.
- Youtube.com is an example of a website that lets people watch and share
movies and TV shows.
- Users can download movies off of programs such as, Napster and Kazaa.
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- Movie downloads help the customers stay home and enjoy their new movie,
while buying them at the stores give the movies better qualities than
downloading.
- Downloading without paying is stealing, and can cause someone to pay
fines or go to jail. Buying DVDs
can be a hassle if there are many people shopping.
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- Music is played on instruments, CDs, and cassette tapes.
- Music artists spend lots of time to record their songs in studios.
- Artists and record companies make money off of sales.
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- Illegal download of music doesn’t help music artists because the
downloads are free.
- Music is stored directly onto a user’s PC.
- MP3 players are popular because of music downloads.
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- CDs have songs that people have never heard of, but MP3 players can
store people’s favorite songs.
- CD players are larger than MP3 players, so MP3 players are easier to
carry around.
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- Not all internet downloads are illegal, as long as people pay for the
movies or music that they are downloading.
- Some companies are trying to prevent users from illegally downloading
from the internet, but they are not very successful because there are
still programs that are being used to obtain downloads.
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- Winokur, Mark, and Bruce Holsinger. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to
Movies, Flicks, and Film. Indianapolis: Macmillan USA, Inc., 2001
- Wikipedia. 13 Dec. 2006. Wikipedia Contributors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film#History_of_film
- Wikipedia. 15 Dec. 2006. Wikipedia Contributors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music#History
- Metro Music & Recording Studios. 2003. Metro Music Contributors. http://metromusic.org/recording/faq.html
- Internet Movie Database. 2006. Internet Movie Database Inc.
http://www.imdb.com/
- P2PNet: People to People. 2006. P2PNet crew.
http://p2pnet.net/story/10467
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