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Revised Thesis: With the introduction of the internet, education has taken a turn for the best and is now available to a more diverse amount of people.

I. Introduction
A. Imagine a world without the internet. This is how the world was twenty years ago.
B. new opportunities are opening for employees, who work at the offices in geographically
dispersed locations, such as possibility to communicate, share and collaborate in order to
achieve common business goals.
C. thesis
II. The effect of the internet on higher education
A. The announcement of the internet was translated by some education authorities to be a
signal that libraries-and even classrooms were dead. Nothing couls be further from the
truth.
B.This study suggests that both transformational and transactional leadership styles are
equally effective across communication media in teams completing short-term, problem
solving tasks. Furthermore, this research provides additional confirmation that the
communication media through which teams communicate influence certain aspects of their
interactions and cohesiveness.
III. The effect of the internet on lower education
A. The case of a legitimate classroom task turning up an unsuitable web page. This could
happen despite the best of intentions, although it is more likely to be mischievous behavior
by a student. You would immediately deal with it as you would any incident in the
classroom.
i. this introduces a topic of moral and ethical responsibility
IV. How the internet has made education available to more people
V. Conclusion
A. Education has failed to take in account of how much the world has changed during the
information technology revolution. It proceeds as though thw world is the same as before-
just more technologized.
B. The invention and popular use of micro- computers, the global communications system
enabled by satellite and fiber optic cables the transmission of television programs around
and across the world, the process of digitalization of data, the portability of communications
devices-these are all part of our present and almost bound to be part of the future in which
the effects of global communications will be felt in our everyday lives.

A framework

Intro=personal anecdote that was published online, or "its not right to have gays in the military, brings down morale and brings unwanted tension...the last thing i need is a gay by my side in iraq" (Avelli)


Thesis: Although the new media has become the primary medium for expressing ideas about social issues such as gays in the military, it is not the most effective in terms of change resulting.


Fact --
-This issue still needs background information to be understood in order to create a valid opinion about it...
"Blogs provide another vehicle for political expression. In that sense, they increase political participation. But if political participation is defined more broadly, blogs potentially fall short" (Jost 21).
-Where did it come from?

people are trying to express themselves and the Internet is the easiest place to go... quote from a blog "instead of unequivocally stating that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is bad policy, hurts our Armed Forces, and discriminates against gays and lesbians, Gen. Jones answered that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" will be dealt with "at the right time," and that a repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" will be teed up appropriately. *Yawn* That's not bold leadership; that's preserving the status quo" (Jones).

Definition--
-from an online source, so the rhetoric has this tone, word choice like "mere" in the following "The "don't ask" part of the policy indicates that superiors should not initiate investigation of a service member's orientation in the absence of disallowed behaviors, though mere suspicion of homosexual behavior can cause an investigation" (Wikipedia, 1)
-everything is biased!


Quality--
`this issue is serious! "The Internet has given hate groups ample reason to feel young again. In the United States, online bigots enjoy full protection under the First Amendment and have access to a potentially limitless audience. Webmasters are anonymous and difficult to silence; leaders suffer few consequences for their followers' actions. And their strategies for organizational growth are beginning to look more corporate than cross-lit" (Brown, 1)

-is it good or bad?
-?"The new internet subculture that has erupted around ‘blogging’ is particularly deserving of analysis here, as bloggers have demonstrated themselves as technoactivists favoring not only democratic self-expression and networking, but also global media critique and journalistic sociopolitical intervention " (Kahn, 91)

-bad = "Online and offline communities are often posited in opposition to each other in a zero sum game. Those taking this view warn that people are more and more seduced from their geographically placed lives to the Internet (Lockhard, 1997)--a trend they call the ‘virtualization of everyday life’ (Doheny-Farina, 1996: xiii). They argue the solitary mode of online access encourages people to focus more completely on their private interests"(Nip, 4)

-"For a sign of how seriously the White House does or doesn’t take this opposition, one adviser told me those bloggers need to take off the pajamas, get dressed, and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult"(Newman).

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Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) is a serious condition that does not receive enough attention from the community. It is an addiction of almost the same magnitude as drug abuse or alcoholism and can be just as detrimental to a person’s social and mental health.

I.       Intro

a.       Story

         “I’m ready to divorce John,” Marsha announced. I was taken aback. Marsha and John had been together for five years and had what I assumed was a stable marriage. I asked her what had gone wrong: Did John have a drinking problem? Was he having an affair? Had he been abusing her? “No,” she replied. “He’s addicted to the Internet.” Between sobs, she filled me in on the problem. Every night, he’d come home from work at 6 p.m. and head straight for the computer. No kiss hello, no help with dinner, or the dishes, or the laundry. At 10 p.m., he’d still be on-line when she’d call him to come to bed. “Be right there,” he’d say. Four or five hours later, he’d finally log off and stumble into bed. (Young 1)

b.       Thesis

II.       More than just a bad habit

a.       Internet use skyrocketing in past years

The average time users spent online grew in double digit rates in six countries between May and October this year, and even in the U.S., which ranks second in amount of time consumers spend online, the average time online grew 7.7%, according to a new report from Nielsen/NetRatings.

The largest growth in time online was registered by German and Swedish consumers, who increased their use of the web by 21.6% between May and October. Germans were online an average of 10 hours, 32 minutes online in October vs. 8 hours, 39 minutes in May. Swedes were online 8 hours, 2 minutes in October vs. 6 hours, 36 minutes in May. (InternetRetailer)

i.       But not everyone has IAD

ii.       Internet has become a necessity of communication, business, education, etc.

iii.       Not all of the increase is due to productive use

b.       Increase in number of people who suffer from IAD

i.       Story

ii.       Percentage of students with IAD

c.       At what point does it become IAD?

III.       IAD is a psychological addiction that has similar symptoms to those of alcoholism/pornography addiction/drug abuse

a.       Brief history of IAD

b.       Symptoms

i.       Fatigue

ii.       Muscular dystrophy

iii.       Depression

iv.       Anxiety

v.         Aggressive behavioc.      

C.       How similar to other addictions

         “While most people associate addiction with substances, such as drugs or alcohol, doctors recognize addictive behaviors as well. In a WebMD feature on the definition of addiction, psychiatrist Michael Bordy, MD, set forth the following criteria: 1. The person needs more and more of a substance or behavior to keep him going. 2. If the person does not get more of the substance or behavior, he becomes irritable and miserable.” (Clark)

i.         Used as an escape from stress but only strengthens the deeper issues

“Kids with depression, anger issues, or social problems also turn to the Internet as therapy, adds Gilbert, who was not involved in the study. ‘they can take on an avatar or a different identity, and can contact other kids with the same problems and social inadequacies; they don’t have to function in conventional social ways.’” (MacMillan)

ii.       Addict pulls away from social interaction

d.       How different

i.      Does not receive attention

“IAD was originally proposed as a disorder in a satirical hoax by Ivan Goldberg, M.D., in 1995. He took pathological gambling as diagnosed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as his model for the description of IAD.” (Internet Addiction Disorder)

ii.       Not as many help groups

iii.       Almost impossible to entirely quit using the internet, so a recovery has a different definition

IV.       IAD destroys face-to-face social skills

         It was found that the more time people spend using the Internet, the more they lose contact with their social environment. Figure 1 shows that this effect is noticeable even with just 2-5 Internet hours per week; and it rises substantially for those spending more than 10 hours per week, of whom up to 15 percent report a decrease in social activities. Even more striking is the fact that Internet users spend much less time talking on the phone to friends and family: the percentage reporting a decrease exceeds 25 percent—although it is unclear to what extent this represents a shift to email even in communicating with friends and family or a technical bottleneck due to a single phone line being preempted by Internet use. (Erbring)

a.       Increased aggression

“Adolescents with aggressive behavior in the past year were more likely to have Internet addiction, use the Internet every day, use the Internet more than 20 hours/week, and participate in oline gaming, chatting, gambling, adult sex Web, and BBS. Also they were less likely to participate in online research or studying activities.” (Ko)

b.       Loneliness

c.       Lack of intimacy

d.       Fake sense of relationship

VI.         Inhibits the development of social skills in children and adolescents.

a.            Kids are more at risk

a.   “It has been hypothesized that, because adolescence and young adulthood is a time of identity and relationship exploration, those who have trouble navigating through these developmental challenges are particularly vulnerable to using the Internet as a coping mechanism. Current research does indicate that ego-identity achievement in middle school students is negatively related to pathological and extreme Internet use.” (Guan)

b.            Sense of identity blurred

VII.         IAD is a serious and very real disorder that needs more attention. The negative effects on social skills and mental health, the easy access, and especially the susceptibility of young people to the addiction make this a dangerous addiction that, if unchecked, will continue to become more and more common.

Revised Thesis and Outline!

Thesis: Despite the apparent loss of revenue generated from movies due to piracy and illegal downloading, the benefits of new media on Hollywood outweigh the costs.

1. What most people know
a. The Film Industry has suffered from the Internet
b. Box-office success has gone done – Statistics (Smith, Michael)
c. Movies can be viewed online now
Hulu is the second-most viewed video site (to YouTube)
d. Piracy and illegal downloading has been a huge issue for a couple years now, and it still hasn’t really gone away. (Wray)


2. Hollywood would be wise to take more advantage of the internet and the file sharing it offers
a. There are long term benefits to shifting the market from out of theater movie purchasing from DVD’s to the internet
b. Netflix is one example of success of viewing films through a new medium
(Currah)

3. Critics
a. The Internet brings everyone together
As a result communication goes up
Peer reviews become more relevant
b. Sites such as Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic has become the focus of film criticism
Rotten Tomatos even works in conjunction with Twitter for movie reviews. (Cieply)

4. Marketing
a. The Internet has revolutionized advertising
Facebook, Hulu, Twitter

- Twitter has shown some correlation between twitter activity and box office success (Hampp)
- Although one might argue that online feedback is more reflective on the quality of the movie rather than influential, that is most likely not the case.
- In fact, Twitter activity was used by some firms to predict opening weekend movie sales. (Hampp)

b. Hulu has become one of the most visited sites on the net
Provides a bunch of movies and trailers to every upcoming film

c. The producers of Paranormal Activity launched a web campaign to get people interested in the movie (Labrecque)
It worked! (Warren)
5. Conclusion
Hollywood is already adapting to find new ways to take advantage of the Internet (Wood, Laura)
The Internet is not a hinderance to Hollywood, it can be utilized to make the industry even stronger.







BTW did anyone watch V for Vendetta yesterday? It was the Fifth of November, after all. And if you did, what did you think of the bald Natalie Portman? I think she might even look more appealing bald. Idk. If you look good bald, you'll look good no matter what. I think that should be like a true test of beauty. I keep telling every girl this but they still aren't willing to test it out.

Re-thinking My Issues Paper Topic

Upon writing an outline for my previously chosen topic, I found I was writing more of a research paper rather than an argument based on research. This being said, I have decided to take a new route and when I have the sources and outline figured out, I will post it on this blog.

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Thesis: High School students can become successful writers with the use of new media.

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1. Counterpoint: Many people look back at their English classes from high school with fear and dislike, because of the way teachers asked them to write about topics they weren't interested in and write in a way that was difficult for them.

*"Ask an English teacher, and they’ll tell you good writing is grammatically correct. They’ll tell you it makes a point and supports it with evidence. Maybe, if they’re really honest, they’ll admit it has a scholarly tone — prose that sounds like Jane Austen earns an A, while a paper that could’ve been written by Willie Nelson scores a B (or worse)." (copyblogger.com)

*Effects texting has on grammar. (netlingo)

A. Point: While writing academically does have benefits, more and more teachers are incorporating new media to help their students enjoy the writing process. This is allowing students to write about what they want to write about, but still go through the growth and learning process of writing.

*Alvermann

*"Public schools typically place heavy restrictions on the use of the Internet. Social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube are often blocked in libraries and computer

labs. The result is a failure to build a bridge between the technological world Millennials live in and the classrooms we expect them to learn in. Such restrictions are almost always justified by claiming that they are intended to protect students. Such protection, however well-intentioned, actually fails to prepare young people by not providing the adult supervision and guidance that many of them would benefit from during their online encounters. If there is a crisis in today's schools, it probably has more to do with students' perceptions that school is boring and largely irrelevant to preparation for life outside school." (Considine, 473)

2. Counterpoint: Students spend too much of their time with social networking and not enough time focusing on their studies.

*Study showing the time spent teenagers are using some form of new media. (Bower)

*Study showing the time spent on the internet. (DiMaggio)

*"There are changes in how parents nag. In what they nag about. In frequency. Parents know more about flubbed tests and skipped homework because of online grading systems. They know more about social lives because of Facebook and MySpace pages.

"The fact that you have more nagging options is what's good about it--The plethora of nagging options," says Martha McGrath." (St. George, 1)

"Reginald Black, 46, a Woodbridge father of three sons, checks online grade reports every morning during this school year. "That's the first thing I do when I turn he computer on," he says. "Some days it can make you feel good. Some days it can wreck your whole day." (St. George, 2)

A. Point: The internet, specifically social networking, can improve students ability to express themselves through writing.

*"Give a middle school child from a low-income house-hold a home computer with free Internet access and watch that child become a better reader. That's the conclusion of a new study that highlights potential academic consequences ofthe so-called digital divide separating poor kids from their better-off peers.

A team led by psychologist Linda A. Jackson of Michigan State University in East Lansing gave computers, Internet access, and in-home technical support to 140 children. The mostly 12-to-14-year-old, African-American boys and girls lived in single-parent families with incomes no higher than $15,000 a year. The

researchers recorded each child's Internet use from December 2000 through June 2002.

Before entering the study, these children generally did poorly in school and on academic-achievement tests. However, overall grades and reading achievement scores-but not math-achievement scores-began to climb after 6 months of home Internet use. These measures had ascended farther by the end ofthe study,

especially among the kids who spent the most time online." (Bower, 377)

3. Counterpoint: The ability to access so much on the internet allows teenagers to plagiarize and cheat their way through school.

*"The Internet is a vast, rapidly growing network of over a billion electronic pages that are fully accessible to our students. It is an incredible resource for young, bright minds. However, not all aspects of this resource are positive. One of the primary concerns facing teachers is that millions of computer-savvy students find it easy to use this massive library of information to plagiarize material, to use someone else's intellectual property as their own without citations or credit. High school students need to understand the ethics of paper writing.

At our last count, there were about 200 "cheat sites" with names like School Sucks and Evil House of Cheat. Each month 2.6 million students access these sites. These 200 sites list tens of thousands of free and purchased papers that students with computers hooked to the Internet can download in seconds, reformat, then turn in as their own work." (Owen, 1)

*Testimonials from current high school students.

A. Point: Students will find ways to cheat regardless and the use of new media allows children the opportunity to learn things they normally wouldn't have the chance to learn.

*"Even as globalization has fed worries about whether U.S. students can keep up with the rest of the world, it also has spawned classroom connections across oceans. Teachers, driven by a desire to help students navigate a world made smaller by e-mail, wikis and teleconferences, say lessons once pulled mainly from textbooks can come to life through real-world interactions." (Glod, 1)

*Testimonials of students learning through new media and connecting with students worldwide. (Glod)

Conclusion: Even with the added dilemmas new media brings to a students education, with the added support from parents and teachers new media can and is making American students better writers.

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I had no idea how to format this outline on the blog! :( Sorry for how jumbled it is!


Outline: Dangers of Internet-based Health Searches
I. Introduction:
A. When, how it started
1. rise of new media and the “internet age”
-“The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).” (Ament, Phil)
-“According to the Pew Research Center (2001), approximately 104 million American adults have access to the Internet.” (Eastin, Matthew S)
B. Along with advancements came consequences.
1. Increased availability of various forms of media (soundbites, videos, visuals), but also increased circulation of pornography
2. Expansion of communications, but also opened new avenues for the exchange of information between criminals that aren’t as noticeable or easily tracked
3. Much like these, the beginnings of online health information provided significant benefits, but has also proven to account for many overlooked consequences.
C. New demand for health information on the internet—stats
1. High cost and low availability of professional health care information
-“One of the primary uses of the Internet by consumers is to obtain information about health and health care.” (Bundorf, M) This is driven by the high cost and overall low availability of health care.
2. Seven percent of health seekers, or about 8 million American adults, searched for information on at least one health topic on a typical day in August 2006. This places health searches at about the same level of popularity on a typical day as paying bills online, reading blogs, or using the internet to look up a phone number or address. (Fox, Susannah)
3.
D. The use of internet-based medical information and services has attributed to a rise in the misinformation of consumers, altered the patient-physician relationship, and negatively impacted clinical business due to its ease of accessibility and common lack of credibility.
I. Misinformation of Consumers
A. Greatest problems with online health information—inaccuracy
1. Disparity between clinical and online information
-“Research indicates that medical professionals do not author an extensive amount of health information available on the Internet. This creates a possibility for false information, thereby potentially leading ill people away from proper care.” (Eastin, Matthew S)
-“the Internet's free and unregulated flow of information and information providers creates many possible hazards to those who seek and trust online information. In many instances those accessing information are unaware of: (1) who authored the material, (2) when the information was last updated, and (3)whether the information is accurate.” (Eastin, Matthew S)
-In 2006, about 113 million American adults used the Internet to find health information (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2006). More than any other source, the Internet provides instant access to tremendous amounts of health-related information that may affect "personal perceptions of health and illness, patients’ compliance to treatment protocols and ultimately, overall health" (Taha, Jessica, and Joseph Sharit)
-“There is an increasing concern, for instance, that some health information disseminated via the internet is “inaccurate, erroneous, misleading, or fraudulent and actually poses a threat to public health in general” (Weaver, James B)
-Three-quarters of health seekers do not consistently check the source and date of the health information they find online. Just 15% of health seekers say they “always” check the source and date of the health information they find online, while another 10% say they do so “most of the time.” Fully three-quarters of health seekers say they check the source and date “only sometimes,” “hardly ever,” or “never,” which translates to about 85 million Americans gathering health advice online without consistently examining the quality indicators of the information they find. (Fox, Susannah)


B. Conflicting Sources à find specific examples
C. Leads to:
1. Mistreatment of illness or ailment
2. Wasted money on products or medicines that won’t help, and sometimes will make consumer’s problem worse
3. Hesitancy to accept a physician’s diagnosis and method of treatment.
-“emerging evidence that a significant proportion of internet health information consumers are self-diagnosing health conditions, seeking information about alternative treatments or medicine, and engaging healthcare strategies inconsistent with medical recommendations.” (Weaver, James B)

II. Patient/Physician Relationship
A. Misinformation leads to greater gap between patient and health professionals
1. Mistrust
-“Methods: An observational study was carried out of office visits by 732 patients of 45 physicians (16 family physicians, 18 general internists and 11 cardiologists), within two managed care settings. Participants were consecutive, English-speaking patients, age 18 and older who had a significant health concern. Visit questionnaires were completed by 68% of patients known to be eligible. Post-visit measures included services requested (information, examination, prescription, test or referral); services provided; and requested or needed services not provided during the visit. Measures at 2-week follow-up included patient satisfaction, intended adherence to advice, interval contacts with the health system and symptom improvement.
-Results: After adjustment for patient and physician characteristics, patient trust in the physician was not associated with the likelihood that a service was requested or provided during the visit, with the exception that prescription of a new medication was more frequent among patients with higher trust. In contrast, patients with low trust prior to the visit consistently were more likely to report that a needed or requested service was not provided (P < 0.001 for all services).
-Requests for services (and their fulfilment or lack of fulfilment) occur in the context of the doctor–patient relationship and, in turn, play an important role in defining the quality of the relationship. From the patient’s view, whether or not they receive the services they request or feel they need often defines the success of the visit.” (Thom, DH)
-low trust might prompt patients to make requests because they do not trust the doctor to provide what they need, while patients with high levels of trust might feel more comfortable asking for what they want. (Thom, DH)
2. Failure to Comply with Treatment (12,
-Patients with a low level of trust were less satisfied with their care (Thom, DH)
3. Disadvantages the patientà easier to take advantage of (4)
a. Of the consumers surveyed:
25% say they felt overwhelmed by the amount of information they found online.
22% say they felt frustrated by a lack of information or an inability to find what they were looking for online.
18% say they felt confused by the information they found online.
10% say they felt frightened by the serious or graphic nature of the information they found online. (Fox, Susannah)
b. This confusion, frustration, and fear can increase a patients ignorance of their own condition, heightening the doctor’s ability to take advantage of just how much they don’t know. This may lead to spending large amounts of money on harmless but unnecessary treatments or multiple, unneeded doctor’s visits because questions weren’t asked or answered the first time around.
B. Because patients mistrust professional help...
1. -“Consumers may forego contacts with physicians in response to the availability of information from alternative sources depending on the caule they place on these alternative sources. (Bundorf, M)
2. Because there is a significant asymmetry in the knowledge-base of patients and physicians, patients often look for information “…to evaluate the quality of either the information or the services they receiver from a physician…” (Bundorf, M) The problem with this is that the online sources they consult often contain flawed instruction, which creates distrust between patient and health professional.
C.
III. Negative Impacts to Clinical Business
A. Because information is provided without charge on the internet, those who seek it most (those with low income and poor health) (9), who also happen to be those who provide clinical businesses with the most income, will go to the internet rather than a professional source.
1. -“the challenges users face in acquiring and using information are a defining feature of health care markets.”
2. -“…the distribution of free health information increased demand for self-care resources and reduced the demand for information from health professionals.”
3. - “…the availability of health information on the Internet may have major implications for consumer behavior and market efficiency.”
4. -“…consistent with the underlying economic theory of demand for information, those who potentially benefit the most from health information and those who face higher costs of obtaining information from other sources are more likely to turn to the Internet as a source of health information.”
5. - “…traditionally physicians and health care professionals have been the primary source for consumers. Physicians have superior information about the production of health due to both their extensive training and their experience in treating patients. Because health production is highly customized based on the characteristics of individual patients, both sources of information create a gap between physicians and patients in their ability to obtain, understand, and make recommendations based on heath information. This asymmetry in information between physicians and consumers creates a market for health information from physicians.” (Bundorf, M)à online health information takes this market away! They can no longer market the skills and information they have obtained because of its costless availability online.
B. The Former two arguments contribute to this loss of business
1. Misinformation – more likely to drive patients away from clinical visits because the information they find from online sources differs from what they hear from a health professional (4)
-consumers fall into a false sense of security, thinking that they don’t need clinical advice and that the Internet can give them everything they need.
2. Patient/Physician Relationships
-mistrust of physicians will discourage doctor’s visits
-also discourage adherence to a doctor’s counsel, which means that a patient will be less likely to pay the health provider for the prescribed treatment (4)
IV. Conclusion
A. The use of online medical information needs to be heavily discouraged and perhaps even prohibited.
1. Internet-based health information may have its uses, and is not always detrimental to the consumer, but its negative consequences are too great
2. Misdiagnosis due to misinformation
3. Takes away business from the professionals, who ironically have the most valuable knowledge

Thesis and Source Map

Part I:
Thesis: In today's world, file sharing and the digital downloading of music via the Internet is rapidly growing and becoming more widely accepted. According to some, this practice weakens the record industries and breaks copyright laws because these downloads are free and able to be shared among different Internet users. However, file sharing should be acceptable because of its undeniable popularity and extreme convenience.

Part II:
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I. Background Information on File Sharing and Record Industries
A) how file sharing networks operate and how they are organized (Ripeanu, Matei)
B) history of record industries, their properties, goals, laws, etc (Hurst, Walter E.)
C) record industries and their struggles during lawsuits (Cooper, Charles)

II. Background Information on Copyright Laws
A) copyright infringement and file sharing (Sharma, Amol)
B) actual judicial reference on the penalties of copyright inringement (United States.Congress)

III. File Sharing Users' Views
A) justifications of participating in downloading free music (MarkJ)
B) how file sharing users' behavior impacts CD sales (Grossman, Lev)
C) how file sharing users affect record companies (news.bbc.co.uk)

IV. Issue of File Sharing in Conjunction with CD Sales
A) how record companies can fight against rampant online downloading (Greenblatt, Alan)
B) ratio of people who download free music vs. those who buy CDs (Oberholzer, Felix)
1. Give reference to statistics behind this issue

V. Illegality of Certain File Sharing and Online Piracy
A) lagging efforts to stop popular online piracy (Alan, Smith D.)
B) government intervention to help stop online piracy (Sandoval, Greg)

VII. Legal File Sharing
A) how file sharing networks can refrain from copyright infringement (Von Lohmann, Fred)
1. purchasing music via the Internet (i.e: iTunes)

VIII. Conclusion
A) future of the record industry (Greenblatt, Alan)
B) population of those who participate in file sharing-growing or decreasing?
C) whether or not the government can stop illegal file sharing
D) whether or not to allow for downloading free music or not