Week 3 - Tutorial Task

Task 1:

1.  The article is entitled Kuranda Police Shooting , 1981.  Stockwell, S1981, 'Kuranda Police Shooting', Legal Service Bulletin, volume 6, p. 48, viewed 26 August 2011 courtesy Hein Online Law Journal Library

2. Flaming Carrot Comics.  Slugwell appeared in issues 7, 10 and 11.   Flaming Carrot Comics, no.7, by Bob Burden. (Burbank, CA:Renegade Press, 1985). 36 page(s) .  Trial library databases > Underground and Independent Comics > Characters.  The database I used was Underground and Independent Comics.

3. Mobile and cordless phones have been proven to increase the risk of a malignant brain tumor forming.  Hardell L. Carlberg M. Hansson Mild K. (2011). Pooled analysis of case-control studies on malignant brain tumours and the use of mobile and cordless phones including living and deceased subjects. International journal of oncology. 5 (5), 1465-74

5. Walter Ong considers the main paradox of 20th century communication as "that a society given so much to the use of diagrams and to the maneuvering of objects in space... should at the same time develop means of communication which specialize not in sight but in sound"  Paul, S 2004, Communication research trends, Centre for the Study and Communication of Culture, Vol 23, p.14, viewed 24 August 2011

4. Leon's reaction is to check if Holden really asked about his mother, then offers to tell him about his mother following which Leon shoots Holden.

Leon: My mother? Holden: Yeah. Leon: Let me tell you about my mother... [Leon shoots Holden] Fancher, H. Peoples, D.W. Kibbee, R. (1982). Blade Runner. [Script]. American Film Scripts. Chicago. Task 2: Released in 1999, Napster was a peer to peer program initially designed to allow the download of MP3 tracks from other users.  An 18 year old Shawn Fanning first wrote the program and uploaded it to download.com where it fast become one of the most downloaded files.  Realising the potential of such a program, Fanning started to sink much of his time in to the improvement of the program.   It was not until Napster started to take hold that piracy issues truly came to light.  The program was banned in over 40% of American Universities, as students made up a large percentage of the user base.  This was due to a few factors, mainly that students were mostly comfortable with the MP3 format, students preferred free music rather than paying for a CD and the fact that Universities provided high speed internet access (Tyson, J. howstuffworks).   Just one year after the release of Napster, a reported 20 million users were registered (BBC, 2002).  However, it was not long until artists started to strike back at Napster and its creator.  Artists employed companies to monitor the downloads of Napster users, then delivered the results to the Napster office.  Faced with proven evidence of piracy, Napster was forced to shutdown hundreds of thousands of accounts.  This trend was soon followed by various artists. After an out of court settlement with record companies fell through, Napster was in 2001 court ordered to stop the illegal trading of copyrighted material.  The company was soon completely shut down.  (BBC, 2002) Napster irrevocably changed the music industry, internet piracy and how the world thinks of intellectual property.  Despite record companies making massive moves into digital sales, enormous amounts of money are still lost due to programs inspired by Napster.   Reference List: 1.  Tyson, J n.d., HowStuffWorks, accessed 26 August 2011, <http://computer.howstuffworks.com/napster3.htm>.2.  BBC 2002, The Rise and Fall of Napster, United States, accessed 26 August 2011, <http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A741089>.