Should take action for the internet illegal sharing.

From the article "Japanese ISPs To Ban File Sharers" in Techcrunch, Japan becomes the first country to ban the file sharers from internet. Besides, this agreement is made by four internet service providers (ISPs) in Japan, instead of from Japanese Government. This agreement will check the copyright of the file if it is illegal by using a special software, and then the illegal files will be banned to share to others. Additionally, as Duncan Riley, the author of the article, mentions in the last paragraph, this agreement mainly marks the focus on the users of Winny, which is the most common and prevalent file sharing network in Japan.

This is not about net neutrality, but we concern about the net legality. I am wondering that the agreement is not proposed by the Japanese government, but the four Japanese internet service providers. Undoubtedly, bilions of people share the music and movies illegally through internet. Rather than music and movies, they actually are stealling the copyrights of electronic games, softwares, and people's private files. They not only upload the whole file to the server, but they also use bit torrent to share files. However, the governments have not taken any effective or legal actions to control the illegal sharing and downloading.

Now, Japan becomes the first country to ban the illegal files sharer on internet by using a "special detection software". I really hope this software can be used in other countries, so that people are not able to steal the copyright. Nevertheless, people can still share the files illegally through msn, emails, or by using flash drives. Therefore, I would like to say that what the government should do is to educate people to respect the importance of copyright and people. As a result, this would be the most effective and long-term solution for the illegal sharing on internet.

Facebook, Opensocial, then what's next?

85% of college students use facebook, 60% log in daily, 85% log in at least once in a week, 93% log in at least once in a month, so that there is no doubt that Facebook is getting hot definitely days by days. In the past, people were using MySpace, Blogger, or Xanga to post their daily blogs. However, Facebook was launched in 2004 as social networking website, but not just a blog web. People can communicate each other, or even creating events and parties, by using Facebook. On the other hand, Google introduced Opensocial to response Facebook. Also, from the article Yahoo To Join OpenSocial in April, Microsoft Groans. in Techcrunch, Yahoo has made an decision to join Google's Opensocial.

It is a long-term competition between Facebook and Opensocial, because Microsoft is a big investor in Facebook, and Google and Yahoo are standing on Opensocial. Both of them are trying to put some specific and attractive features in order to gain a larger market share. Things are getting changed and updated continuously. For instance, when CD player was competing with MD player, MP3 player was invented and then being commonly used. Therefore, no matter Facebook or Opensocial wins at this time, one of them will be eliminated a few years later. However, the most important point is that a new social network platform will be launched very quickly to response to the winner of this competition. How about "FaceSocial"?

Dropbox: An online storage solution

Nowadays, people get used to save lots of music, movies, and photos in their computer. Since they need a huge volume of hard drive storage, they usually either buying an external hard drive, or choosing a computer with a hard disk in an enormous volume. I am belong to this majority. I like to save the movies in my computer even I have watched those already. Also, I enjoy taking pictures with my family and my friends, so that I have stored about 2000 photos in my hard disk now. I have a 200GB external drive; however, it seems that 200GB memory cannot satisfy me since I store many files continuously. Dropbox: The Online Storage Solution We’ve Been Waiting For? in Techcrunch tells me that Dropbox might be a great choice or solution to share the load of my hard drive.

Dropbox is a great online storage solution to let people get the files which are uploaded online before. Not only storing data, but other people can also share those files with friends or co-workers. Once you enter the email addresses of who you want to share the folder with, they can easily share your files. Of course, when your friends add some files in the shared folder, you can download it to get the files also.

This kind of online storage like Dropbox is very useful and user-friendly to help people to access and share the files online, instead of storing the files in a flash drive or hard drive. Actually, the concept of Dropbox is similar to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. Both FTP and Dropbox are used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network, such as over the internet. In my experience, my friend was sending many big files to me. He put those files to his ftp servers, so that I could download them easily.

Therefore, I believe Dropbox would be commonly used in the future. It is becasue more and more people have a sense of backing up their files in another place.