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Zeitgeist is a documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, released in 2007. It outlines the many ways in which information has been repressed by governments and religions over centuries to maintain control over the public. The film went viral shortly after its release, thanks to the internet. Unfortunately for Peter Joseph, countless debunking websites and smear campaigns have been launched to discredit the documentary. This scenario is a great example of how social movements can be created and driven by the internet, only to be killed later by the internet.

EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet.

Copyright and copyright infringement on the Internet has been a largely debated topic. Musicians, writers and artists have teamed together in recent years to stop copyright infringement on the Internet.

describes the way people can watch movies legally and for free on the internet. always wondered how this worked...

The internet has become more a communication system over the years and facebook has played a huge role in giving the internet this name. Facebook allows you to connect with others across the world. Sharing pictures, seinding messages, and chatting through a instant messanger all can be done on facebook.

within one year social networks account for 10% of all internet time. the site talks about how much use of internet time goes into social networks and which ones we can find to be most popular, no surprise here but facebook takes the lead. The article talks about how the demographic of social network users is ranging in age and becoming more popular with older members which we all know is true.

ConspiracyScience.com is run by Edward Winston, a software engineer whose hobby is debunking various conspiracy theories using knowledge and research. This page debunks the Zeitgeist film, linked below. Winston is not alone in discrediting the Zeitgeist movement - some internet message boards are devoted entirely to debunking conspiracy theories. These are great examples of the internet's ability to correct mistakes over time, eg: Zeitgeist convinced millions of viewers to believe untrue facts and theories - websites like ConspiracyScience.com convinced millions of others that Zeitgeist is unreliable.

Interesting article about advertising on the internet.

A look at the quarterly State of the Internet Report. United States come in 18th out of 203, falling behind South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan.

This article explains how the music industry is suffering from the internet allowing music to be listened to or downloaded to your computer free.

this allows you to listen to music on the internet free of charge.

Internet art piece by Johnathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Scroll down and click on "Interactive Version" to see it. What is it? Well, as stated on their "Mission" page: "We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved."

This article compares different web providers and tells you which ones are better than others. Since Internet Explorer is "evil", I thought this was interesting.

SelfGrowth.com is one of many websites that make it possible for someone to research specific skills or techniques, such as lie detection. I find it interesting that the internet makes obscure information readily available. Decades ago it would have been fairly difficult to find books related to lie detection, or many of the other topics listed on Selfgrowth.com.

The Constitution grants Congress the power "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries ..." Copyright coverage under the law now includes: architectural design, software, the graphic arts, motion pictures, and sound recordings. It includes articles by writers written and published on the internet. Read more at Suite101: Copyright Infringement of Internet Articles: Significant Penalties for Stealing a Writer's Work http://law.suite101.com/article.cfm/copyright_infringement_of_internet_articles#ixzz0etrpeZ3M

This is an article that describe a situation where the lines of copyright got blurred between internet and print.

This is not academic, but more of this one mans opinion. I can not use this for my report, however, it is a very good starting point, which could lead in directions for research.

This is an internet database for songs that have been sampled along side the original song as well as songs that have been covered.

With the use of stumbleupon, you can come across any website that has ever been created on the public internet. You can choose specific topics to look at or you can just stumble across the entire web.