China's Online Rise to Power

China has been a country rising in power from conducting business worldwide, practically everything sold in the U.S.A is made in China. Now China is coming into the power of the web, the population has increased to 457 million which is up 19% from 2010. Baidu, a search engine, strengthened its share of the Chinese market, while Google dropped. Baidu increased to 75.5%. Google dropped from21.6% to 19.6%.

Baidu has created a blog, which will be in English as to reach global audience that follows China and Chinese society. “China's Internet culture is fascinating," said Kaiser Kuo, Baidu's Director of International Communications. "The Web is where all the new Chinese memes are born, where celebrities-for better or for worse-are created, where new writers hone their skills, and where songs become hits. The Internet has become the crucible of contemporary Chinese culture, and is the de facto public sphere of Chinese life, where ideas are exchanged, often with remarkable candor."

In addition China has launched their own online map service. Google has yet to apply for a Web mapping license in the country.  This took four years to gather all the satellite images, which were collected from 2006 to 2010. This map service is provided free of charge. In regards to this I believe that China will be able to grow stronger in the online market, and likely to extend to other countries. 

ONLINE PIRACY CAN IT BE STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To talk about online piracy, I will have to talk about mIRC. MIRC is a massive internet chat relay that enables users to communicate, share, play or work with others on the networks. This enables users to share music to each other, which is peer to peer. This program was created in 1995, and is still alive and kicking today due to the fact that it is a chat client. The government cannot shut it down, even though people share files on it that could be or is pirated. So looking at this program which enables peer to peer sharing of music, which has been running for over a decade, shows that online piracy will not be stopped anytime soon.

I would like you to take a look at a report by Greg Sandoval, which shows how little cases have been brought to attention involving online file sharing. In the article it states that online piracy costs the U.S. economy billions and kills jobs, which harms the actors and musicians as well as caterers and truck drivers.

To look at the battles that the current legal system has concerning online music piracy, we have to also take a look at Lime Wire. LimeWire which was ordered to shut down in the year 2010, and has now completely shut down since December 31^st 2010. LimeWire basically enabled people to share copyright-protected songs. By doing this they received a federal injunction in October of 2010. Take a look at an article done by Dana Wollman.

To me reading these articles and experiencing online music piracy myself, it shows that the Government are not doing much to stop it. Also there exist certain programs that they can’t shut down. I know for a fact that a lot of people use torrents to download music and movies to their laptops or computers. In my personal opinion for online music piracy to stop the government would basically have to shut down numerous sites and programs, but this is not possible due to the fact that certain of these sites are not based in the U.S. and the U.S. government cannot shut them down.