New Media

     With all the technological advances and the new technology and innovations the film industry has developed, for example IMAX, and 3D format, concepts like the movie Inception, and visual effects like the movie Avatar I think in the future we will be able to fully experience movies and trick the brain to believe we are in actuality participating in the movie not as an audience but as part of the movie. A company would develop special glasses, like 3D glasses but more sophisticated, and the visual effects and sounds would stimulate and trick our brains into not only thinking, but  actually feeling what is happening in the movie.

P2P File Sharing

-->

According to Wikipedia, File Sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented through a variety of ways. P2P File sharing (Peer-to-Peer file sharing) is the distribution and sharing of digital documents and computer files using the technology of peer-to-peer networking.  Users can use software that connects in to a peer-to-peer network to search for shared files on the computers of other users connected to the network. Files of interest can then be downloaded directly from other users on the network. The following are some of the P2P file sharing programs:

·      Shareaza   (http://www.shareaza.com/)

·      BitTorrent   (http://www.bittorrent.com/)

·      Ares   (http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/)

·      BearShare   (http://www.bearshare.com/)

·      Kazaa   (http://www.kazaa.com/)

·      Limewire   (http://www.limewire.com/)

·      eMule   (http://www.emule.com/)

·      isoHunt   (http://isohunt.com/)

·      The Pirate Bay   (http://thepiratebay.sx/)

BitTorrent is one of the most successful programs. On the article BitTorrent effect, Clive Thompson writes, “Bit Torrent, one of the most successful peer-to-peer programs ever. BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3”.

People used P2P file sharing to share movies, music, digital books, PDF documents, and videos.

Privacy

     With the surge of new media and the changes society is experiencing with the new ways of communication, privacy and confidentiality have become a great concern to Internet users. Every time we go online we leave behind our footprint and our information. From the information we share in social media to the footprint left behind online companies pay top dollars to have access to such information. Not only marketing companies should be our concerns, but also prospective employers, hackers, stalkers, and pedophiles. Whatever information we posted on the Internet is there forever.  We see in the news how hackers gain access to people’s private and confidential information; credit cards, medical records, bank accounts. For these reason we should be careful with the information we posted online and the transactions we make online everyday.