- ICQ was one of the first real-time chat/instant message programs and dominated until MSN messenger took over in about 2000 as it came with Window's XP
- MP3's most common type of audio file
- P2P and filesharing set to expand however more copywrite laws are trying to come in.
- Lot of people turning to Voice Over IP or voice chat as opposed to talking over the telephone - especially to friends and relatives overseas as it is so much cheaper (the cost of a local call or less if on broadband).
- Free Software is available on the internet and the General Public Licence is there to protect those who created it from others selling it as their own
Having just done Media Law we learnt a bit about copywrite and that recently new laws have been put in place to protect the works of others for longer periods of time after death. For example, almost all forms of material (poems, photos, books etc.) now have copywrite for the life of the artist plus 50 - 70 years.
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