Chapter 6: Case Study

RIAA fights Music Piracy

Questions to Consider

1. Is the RIAA’s strong stand on copyright infringement helping or hurting the music recording industry?

Ans: For me it is helping the music recording industry because instead of illegally copying it the user may buy their albums because if the user illegally copying the music he/she will receive an email from your ISP regarding to music copyright infringement. This is a good chance for the music recording industry to gain more resources. 

2. Could an ISP’s implementation and enforcement of the RIAA’s multitier strategy have a negative impact on the ISP?

Ans: It has no negative impact on the ISP because it will just warned the user to stop an illegal doing like copying the music without any permission.

Lotus Vs. Borland

Questions to Consider

1. Go to your school’s computer lab or a PC software store and experiment with current versions of any two of the Quattro, Excel, or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet programs. Write a brief paragraph summarizing the similarities and differences in the “look and feel” of these two programs.

Ans: The similarities of the two spreadsheet programs.

    Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 are both spreadsheet software for computers. The two programs offer similar features but are manufactured by different companies and store information in different file formats. Spreadsheets allow you to organize and manipulate data in columns and rows. They are typically associated with numerical applications, but a spreadsheet can hold any kind of data. These two programs are more similar than they are different, but users who switch between them should know the differences


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Ans: The differences of the two spreadsheet programs.


     Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 is the way you move around a worksheet. Moving around in a worksheet, using navigation keys is done differently in each spreadsheet program. For example, when hitting the "HOME" key in Lotus 1-2-3, the cell in the upper-left hand corner of a row is selected. However, in Excel, if you hit the "Home" key, the first cell in the current row will be selected. Although the navigation keys can be changed in Excel to perform the same way as Lotus 1-2-3, you cannot change the navigation keys in Lotus 1-2-3 to perform the same way as Excel's navigation keys do (Microsoft Corporation, 2008).

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2. The courts took several years to reverse their initial decision and rule in favor of Borland. What impact did this delay have on the software industry? How might things have been different if Borland had received an initial favorable ruling?

Ans: It has a big impact it is because the user's of this software will not trust this software industry because of the big delay the court did.  

3. Assume that you are the manager of Borland’s software development. With the benefit of hindsight, what different decisions would you have made about Quattro?