UK Copyright and File Sharing
UK Legislation and File Sharing Published in a computer related journal assuming basic computer knowledge. Shonak Nathwani Figure 1: Lord Mandelson and the Digital Britain Bill (Online) Abstract The problem of file sharing is widespread across the world, with creative industries seeking to put an end to the illegal sharing of their content. The issue facing industries is trying to recover their lost revenue - but this cannot be done without government intervention. The vast number of people who violate current legislation poses a significant problem for the government to try and resolve. This article explains the history of how file sharing changed the internet, and analyses the feasibility of potential measures and legislation implementation that the UK government are undertaking. Declaration I declare that the work presented in this essay is my own and that it has not been submitted for assessment on any other module. Signed: Shonak Nathwani, 0925605 UK Legislation and File sharing There is little denying that the way we use the internet on a daily basis has transformed our lives. The fact that we can communicate, learn and explore the wonders of the World Wide Web with just a few mouse clicks has made this remarkable technology an embedded part of our day to day doings. Yet, our thirst for digital content,
Cisc v risc. To begin this assignment , I will outline the definition of cisc and risc . Cisc stands for complex instruction set computing and Risc stands for reduced instruction set computing . these two concepts are both types of instruction sets used
Cisc v Risc Introduction: To begin this assignment , I will outline the definition of cisc and risc . Cisc stands for complex instruction set computing and Risc stands for reduced instruction set computing . these two concepts are both types of instruction sets used in computer architecture for processors and microprocessors . computer architecture is a way of examining the structure of a computer, we mainly focus on the how the cpu performs internally and how it accesses addresses in computer memory. The objective of the microprocessor is to advance the performance of the machine. Performance can be defined as the amount of work a processor can do in a set time . In order to improve the computers performance we would have to increase the speed of how we process these instructions or else make these instructions more complex so they will perform more work, but we can't have both. Speeding up the instructions (cisc) means changing the clock speed of the computer , while making the instructions more complex (risc) means we will require more power to process them. An real life analogy of this instruction set concept would be to take a bike for example , if we are in a low gear we can pedal really fast to get where we are going but in a high gear we can go the same distance but we require more power to push the pedals. In the following sections I will try and explain the two