The Use of Computers in Entertainment :: Technology

The Use of Computers in EntertainmentIn todays electronic era computers yield a hand in close to everything. Entertainment is no exception, in fact with the approach shot of digital information has made one of its greatest leaps. Movies, games, music, even books that that are simple and easy as it is have been impacted greatly by computers. But how far is too far? Music is now stolen, movies the same, games can be hacked and broken into with simple programs. As technology continues, more and more information will be taken, changed, stolen, and laws will then be made to try to stop in all of this. But all they really need is a good middle ground to work towards or land on.With the coming of DVDs computers moved into a cosmic portion of the video industry. But with it came the ability to take a movie off of the disk and distribute it over substance abuser sharing programs. Many companies have tried to solve this problem by adding programs and such to the disks so that the information cannot be stolen. This does not stop DVD pirating, but it does cut down on the burning of DVDs. CDs have also incorporated this type of programming for the same reasons.The music industry was turned upside down with the coming of Napster. Why this was is not really understood, because some(prenominal) programs that were out previously that did the same thing. Scour was a one of a kind program, and before that simple transfer sites were in abundance, as they still are, to download music. Perhaps the ease of which Napster allowed users to share information is what bothered them. But a lawsuit was taken against Napster, and it had to restrict many of its features (http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1000463.stm). But if they had simply come to a common middle ground, perhaps having users relent to use the service or pay for the music itself, would have been better. Just because Napster was forced to add program lines that all but shut the program down didnt mean t he other user to user programs were forced to stop being made. In fact when one is shut down it seems like 5 replace it. Because of this many programs that have a service fee or a membership of some sort is ignored.