Surveys Sent out 8th Feb

"Hi,

Please fill out each Survey. (each one has 10 questions)

This will go towards my primary research for my dissertation."



http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KV7572K - Film piracy questionaire

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K99HCTP - Music piracy questionaire

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KYYKS2R -Games piracy questionaire


Film Piracy Survey

Music Piracy Survey

Games Piracy Survey


I'm sending you two Marcus Miller tracks with my other e-mail!

Cheers!

Ash

Questionnaire (Film Piracy)

Questionnaire
Copyright and Piracy

Please circle your answers

Age
10-16
17-21
22-30
31-40
41-50
51+

Gender
Male
Female

Do you prefer a digital copy or a disc of a film?
Digital Copy
Disc

Do you prefer to have back up copies of your films?
Yes
No
Not Sure

Do you own a DVD/BluRay player?
Yes
No

How often do you use your DVD/BluRay player?
Once a week
More than once a week
Never

Do you find DVD/BluRay’s to be too expensive?
Yes
No
Not Sure

Do you watch films before they are released in the cinema?
Yes
No
Sometimes

Have you ever downloaded Films for free?
Yes
No

How often do you download free films?
When ever I can
When I need to
Not often

Do you use Bit Torrents?
Yes
No

Do you think Bit Torrent search engines do enough to filter out copy-written Films?
Yes
No
Not Sure

Do you believe that individual rights of internet users are more important than the protection intellectual property?
Yes
No
Not sure

Mininova replied back

Erik Dubbelboer to me

show details Jan 21 (1 day ago)

Hi Ashley,

Sure I can answer some questions:

1.When did Mininova start?

Mininova started in 2005.

2.Does Bit-torrenting help artists to distribute there creations more easily than if they were to distribute it through shops?

Yes, with bittorrent the other people that are downloading are also helping with uploading. This will greatly decrease your bandwidth costs.
But comparing shops and bittorrent is a bit like comparing apples and oranges, bittorrent distribution is mostly free while you have to pay for things in shops.

3.How can you tell if the material you are downloading is copy-written?

I'm afraid there is no fixed way to know this.

4.As an Animation Student, distribution is very important for me in order to get my films exposed. What does Mininova offer over popular video sites such as Youtube?

You can read more about this on: http://www.mininova.org/apply


Have a nice day,

1st Session

Yesterday I had my first Dissertation session with Angie. The aim of the session was to get us to come up with a lead question for our Dissertations and to also create a stratergy plan to help us work out what we need to research and how we are going to do it etc...

I found the session very useful as I found out how to present my Dissertation and what aspects I needed to include such as Appendices and Acknowledgements. I'm more confident knowing what I have to produce for the Disserttion.

5% of our grade goes to the Progress Map that we have to do. The Progress Map is used to record the work and research that you do for the Dissertation. I'm using this Blog for my Progress map.

During the session with Angie, I managed to come up with a lead question and lots of useful links from JB. I'm happy with my lead question and can't wait to get started on it.