<p>This study focuses on the proactive methods against illegal downloading. This study will look into the new implemented IPRED law that could be seen as one attempt to prevent the illegal downloading. Furthermore, this study investigates how new services such as Spotify can be a legal alternative to the illegal downloading and also how the music industry has handled the transition from CD sales to the new digital media.</p><p> </p><p>Our research consists of both qualitative and quantitative study where a survey has been conducted among 50 people in Jönköping University. The study also consists of two interviews from experts within the field which gave the study more credibility.</p><p> </p><p>We discovered through our research that the music industry has been going through four different phases and that the actual state the music industry is that they have started to accept the technology and adjust their business to it. We have also discovered through our survey that the IPRED law has had an impact in the fight against illegal downloading. The winner is Spotify that most users have turned to when the IPRED law was introduced.</p>

<p>The internet itself is continuously changing. Since it was widely introduced, the users’ main focus has shifted from a communication tool, to a huge file sharing pool, to a marketing tool, to an information gathering and information reproducing tool.</p><p>Nowadays the way of sharing files needs to be reconsidered, because more and more private information is shared over the internet. The common file sharing applications are no longer appropriate for today’s purposes. Also the common way of socializing people is not up to date anymore.</p><p>Sharing files already implies a communication between users. But why do we not use the given information of shared data in order to socialize them? This thesis discusses the problematic domains of sharing images and socializing and introduces a tool named Picnic that has been conceived and implemented in order to overcome those problems.</p>

<p>Words like pirates and anti-pirates are becoming common features in the cultural political debate of today, and the file-sharing phenomenon has become a more and more delicate and disputed subject. The fact that people are organizing in networks to swap computerfiles with each other has, among other things, led film and music companies from all over the world to initiate a number of anti-piracy organizations, assigned to protect the right to culture and information. The industrial organization Antipiratbyrån (the Anti-pirate Bureau) and the network Piratbyrån (the Pirate Bureau) have on several occasions been used to represent the prevailing conflict in Sweden. The purpose of this study is to apply a sociological perspective to the collective act of file sharing. Additionally, the purpose is to argue that the activity can be understood as a social movement, although it is rarely referred to as such. By focusing on the distinctly organized part of the file-sharing movement, the goal has principally been to answer how the collective action and the conveyance of knowledge, that is taking place within the movement, can be understood and which the fundamental ideas are. The study has its starting point in theories about the cognitive praxis – or core identity – of social movements. Among the methods used, interviews with representatives from Piratbyrån were valuable tools, but also other sources, like the Piratbyrån website and forum along with their participation in the media, have been the basis of the analysis. This led to a few conclusions worth considering. The most important result of the study is that it is relevant to talk about a new social movement. This movement is above all characterized by individual autonomy, expressed in a fundametal belief in the individual and some kind of “egoistic” solidarity. Closely connected to this is the everyday practice that makes the existence of the movement possible. The conclusion of the study is that the use of the technology is experienced as a political act, associated by the activists to a decentralization of power and control. Therefore, any restraint of the technology is also experienced as a restraint of man’s autonomy.</p>

Gemeinsamer Workshop von Universitaetsrechenzentrum und Professur Rechnernetze und verteilte Systeme der Fakultaet fuer Informatik der TU Chemnitz. Anhand des Freenet-Projektes wird erklärt, wie anonymes Filesharing funktioniert. Der Vortrag beschreibt den Aufbau und die Funktion von Freenet und wie man Daten in Freenet einspielt bzw. wiederfinden kann. Es werden Vor und Nachteile von Freenet gegenüber anderen Projekten genannt.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1986. / Cover title. "March 1986." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Wen Su, John Gibson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering." Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-59).

Thesis (M.Sc.(Computer Science))--University of Pretoria, 2000. / Summaries in Afrikaans and English.

Thesis (M.E.)--University of Florida, 2002. / Title from title page of source document. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Modern computer systems are power or energy limited. While the number of transistors per chip continues to increase, classic Dennard voltage scaling has come to an end. Therefore, architects must improve a design's energy efficiency to continue to increase performance at historical rates, while staying within a system's power limit. Throughput processors, which use a large number of threads to tolerate memory latency, have emerged as an energy-efficient platform for achieving high performance on diverse workloads and are found in systems ranging from cell phones to supercomputers. This work focuses on graphics processing units (GPUs), which contain thousands of threads per chip. In this dissertation, I redesign the on-chip storage system of a modern GPU to improve energy efficiency. Modern GPUs contain very large register files that consume between 15%-20% of the processor's dynamic energy. Most values written into the register file are only read a single time, often within a few instructions of being produced. To optimize for these patterns, we explore various designs for register file hierarchies. We study both a hardware-managed register file cache and a software-managed operand register file. We evaluate the energy tradeoffs in varying the number of levels and the capacity of each level in the hierarchy. Our most efficient design reduces register file energy by 54%. Beyond the register file, GPUs also contain on-chip scratchpad memories and caches. Traditional systems have a fixed partitioning between these three structures. Applications have diverse requirements and often a single resource is most critical to performance. We propose to unify the register file, primary data cache, and scratchpad memory into a single structure that is dynamically partitioned on a per-kernel basis to match the application's needs. The techniques proposed in this dissertation improve the utilization of on-chip memory, a scarce resource for systems with a large number of hardware threads. Making more efficient use of on-chip memory both improves performance and reduces energy. Future efficient systems will be achieved by the combination of several such techniques which improve energy efficiency. / text