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The Boston Burglar (Roud 261) was a number one hit in the Irish Charts for Johnny McEvoy in 1967. [1] It is a transportation ballad commonly assumed to have been adapted in America from the sea shanty The Whitby Lad / Botany Bay.
This article points out that technological development such as file sharing, MP3 players, and CDRs have increased music piracy. The most common forms of music piracy are Internet Piracy and compact disc piracy. It also discusses the association between music piracy and organized crime, which is defined as profit-driven illegal activities.
The announcement depicts either a teenage girl trying to illegally download a movie or two women attempting to buy DVDs from a bootlegger interwoven with clips of a man committing theft of various objects, and equates these crimes to the unauthorized duplication and distribution of copyrighted materials, such as films.
The following is a list of songs that have been the subject of plagiarism disputes. In several of the disputes the artists have stated that the copying of melody or chord progression was unconscious. In some cases the song was sampled or covered. Some cases are still awaiting litigation.
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City of Crime is a single performed by actors Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd that was released as the soundtrack song to the 1987 film Dragnet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Music video
Theft of car parts spiked 83 percent, mostly due to catalytic converters. Motor vehicle theft went up 50 percent in Pierce County. Auto theft increased 17 percent statewide, with Pierce and King ...
As file sharing has increased over the last four years, the sales of recorded music have dropped by approximately 30%. Perhaps other economic factors contributed, but the events likely are related. Music downloaded for free from the Internet is a close substitute for purchased music; many people are bound to keep the downloaded files without ...