Reflection of this course

We are coming towards the end of the semester. Now that I reflect back to the assignments and classes we had, I think it was not bad as I thought. Classes were fun, especially because we had a lot of discussions and we worked in groups. The assignments were hard and time consuming but Prof. Mckinley always took time explaining and he also gave us time to prepare and discuss with my classmates so I always felt ready to write my essays. I think not only because this class was a mandatory class, but classes were also interesting so I had the best attendance among all the courses that I have taken in Sophia. (although I often asked if we can finish early.. haha)

This blog was also fun to write. We were allowed to write anything if it was something about our topic so it kept me motivated. I enjoyed sharing my favorite movies. I also liked reading what others were writing because we usually don't have a chance to read what others are thinking and what they like.

I hope public speaking will be an interesting course like Comp 2! :)

My Survey Result

I conducted a survey about internet piracy from July 2 - July 7 through Survey monkey and by hand. I used SNS such as twitter, facebook, and line to ask my friends to answer survey. All the people who answered my survey are students. The result came out almost as I expected.

Number of people : 100people

1. What is your gender?
Male 34%
Female 66%

2. Have you lived abroad? if yes when and where
No 49.5%
Yes 50.5%
Places: Taiwan, India, Australia, Korea, China, England, Singapore, US, Vietnam, Canada, Belgium, Turkey, Philippines, Russia, Dubai

3. How often do you watch movies?
Everyday 1%
Every week 22.5%
Every month 46%
twice a month 28%
Never 2%
Other
Most people who answered other watches movie whenever a interesting movie is out.

4. Do you download or watch movies online?
Yes 72.7%
No 27.3%

5. Order these Crimes
Most answered that internet piracy is the least serious and murder as most serious. However, theft and sexual harassment changed places from time to time.

6. Do you think internet piracy is bad?
Yes 52%
No 48%

Furthermore, by looking at the data closely, I figured out that more people who have lived abroad downloaded movies from internet and they also did not think internet piracy is serious. Also Male tend to download movies more than female.

My Survey Questions

*This is a blog post that was due on June 30th.

For my final research paper I am planning to write how laws and movements that opposes internet piracy is meaningless because it is almost impossible to regulate people from pirating.

My big question for my final essay is,
What, if any, benefits do governmental laws bring to internet piracy?

Demographic Questions
1. What is your gender?
2. Have you lived abroad? (other than Japan) If yes, where and how long?

For my demographic questions, I am trying to find the difference in people's thoughts about internet piracy depending on gender and also between people who only lived in Japan and those who came from abroad. I assume that male downloads movie more often than female students. Also, I assume that those who have lived abroad does more downloading on internet than those who stayed in Japan. Furthermore, it would be great if I can see the difference between the countries people are from. (eg. People from US downloads movie more than those from Thailand)

Research Questions
1. How often do you watch movies?
2. Do you download or watch movies online?
3. Order these crimes in order of weight.
    internet piracy   theft   murder   sexual harassment
4. Do you think Internet piracy is bad?

My research questions tries to find how common downloading movies are among students. I also aim to find how concerned people are about internet piracy by asking the question 3 and 4.

Most pirated movies of all time!

*This is a blog post that was due June 23

I recently read an article about the top 10 most pirated movies of all time on TorrentFreak. TorrentFreak is a weblog that uploads news about a peer-to-peer file sharing software, BitTorrent. BitTorrent is one of the most common software used to share files on internet and it has 150 million active users. TorrentFreak often talks about latest copyright issues and it releases the top 10 most pirated movies for each week, every year and for all times. The article I read was posted on October 12, 2011.

The article presents a list of top 10 movies that was downloaded through BitTorrent since 2006. Here is the list.

1. Avatar - 21 million downloads
2. The Dark Night - 19 million downloads
3. Transformers - 19 million downloads
4. Inception - 18 million downloads
5. The Hangover - 17 million downloads
6. Star Trek - 16 million downloads
7. Kick-Ass - 15 million downloads
8. The Departed - 14 million downloads
9. The Incredible Hulk - 14 million downloads
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: A World's End - 14 million downloads

By looking at the list, all movies that are in the top 10 list are high grossing movies that are very famous. Moreover, Avatar is actually the best grossing movie of all time and The Dark Night and Star Trek is in the top 5 list too. By looking at these statistics, it shows how internet piracy does not necessary affect movie gross revenue. Furthermore, we can see how great amount of movie is downloaded illegally without paying through the number of downloads. This shows how internet piracy common among users of peer-to-peer software. It also shows how a lot of people do not see piracy so seriously.

Through such a simple list of statistics, it shows us a lot of things. I was surprised on the amount of downloads that were done. Since this list was made in 2011, I believe after year and a half, there are more and more downloads made through BitTorrent.

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