- downloading music
- using someone´s wi-fi
- photocopying a book
- reading a book in a shop or downloading it
- videoing in a cinema
- recording from the radio
2.2 DOWNLOADS: rank them from most illegal to least illegal from your point of view:
- movies
- documents
- software
- wallpaper
- music
- photos
- games
- You Tube videos
2.3 FAMILY: Spend one minute writing down all the words and expressions you associate with the word 'PIRATE' and 'BAY' and think about how the meaning of this word has evolved in the last years.
2.4 FILE-SHARING DISCUSSION: Here are some questions you can try asking yourself before you come to our discussion on Wednesday:
a) What did you think when you read the headline?
b) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘download’?
c) How important is downloading to you?
d) Do you worry about breaking the law when you download things?
e) What do you think of people who download thousands of songs and dozens of movies?
f) Do you think the Pirate Bay guys deserve to go to jail?
g) Is breaking international copyright laws really so serious? For whom?
h) How do you think the entertainment industry can stop illegal file-sharing?
i) Do you think everyone expects everything for free nowadays?
j) Should people be punished for downloading stuff illegally?
k) Would your life change if all file-sharing sites closed?
l) Why do you think there are people who are unhappy with the decision?
m) How angry do you think singers are with illegal downloaders?
n) Do you think the decision has sent a clear message to the pirates?
o) What do you think of the word ‘pirate’ for illegal download sites? Do you think it´s too strong?
p) Why do most people think piracy is not OK, but they do it anyway?
q) Have the courts declared war on a whole generation?
r) Do you think file-sharing will be legal one day?
PREPARING A DISCUSSION IS FUNDAMENTAL:
THIS MUST BE DONE IN TWO DIRECTIONS:
FIRST, YOU NEED TO LEARN NEW VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO USE FOR THE DISCUSSION.
SECONDLY, YOU HAVE TO PREPARE THE TOPIC BY LOOKING UP INFORMATION IN THE INTERNET, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.
THIS WAY YOU WILL FEEL MUCH MORE CONFIDENT AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO TALK ABOUT.
HERE IS ONE FINAL TASK THAT YOU MAY DO IN ORDER TO COVER THE FOUR SKILLS YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON WHEN LEARNING A LANGUAGE: LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING AND WRITING.
Write a composition and leave it in the blog as a comment to Session 17, I will edit it in the blog so that everybody can learn from other people´s opinions.
Choose one of the following topics:
- Write an article about the immense harm file-sharing can do to the entertainment industry
- 'We should all be able to share files on the internet'. Express your opinion
New technologies have set up a new scene for music, films and maybe books too, so CDs, DVD’s and paper books are loosing ground in favour of no physical files than you can download on the internet.
ReplyDeleteThis new situation has started a war between the entertainment industry and users. That want to keep its old system of getting money through copyrights and these prefers share files for free and have access to nearly infinite of their favourite music, films, etc.
This war should guide to a system in which artists could get money in compensation for their work but for lower prices because internet makes possible to sell more quantity of their jobs at a lower cost than making physical items. This reduction in prices would entail that users would prefer to get original products for not much money without risk of infection with virus and knowing that the files run perfectly.