Piracy

Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria

Ministry of National education

Level/stream: 3year SC, GE/ math

Part one: reading and interpreting        (15pts)

Read the text and do the following activities:

A pirate in former times was someone who took property of others’ wealth by stealing, forcing to give it up or even depriving them of their lives in remote seas. A pirate in modern times steals from others from behind a computer screen. All he needs is the Internet and some mouse clicks on.

Piracy is a form of theft. Specifically, it refers to the unauthorized copying or use of intellectual property. Intellectual property is knowledge or expression that is owned by someone. There are three major types of intellectual property: creative works, including music, written material, movies, and software, which are protected by copyright law; inventions, which are protected by patent law; and  brand-name products, which are protected by trademarks. Many of the issues surrounding piracy have to do with the difference between intellectual property and physical property. A CD, for example, is a piece of physical property, but the songs on the CD are intellectual property. A customer in a record store can purchase a CD, but someone else still owns—or more precisely, has the copyright to—the songs on the CD.                                                                                                                                                Piracy is primarily a problem for the entertainment and software industries, and therefore piracy most often involves violations of copyright law. Copyright is a legal right that protects creative works from being reproduced, performed, or disseminated without permission of the copyright owner. Essentially, a copyright gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of the material in question.                                                                                                                                                                     Physical piracy the copying and illegal sale of hard-copy CDs, videotapes, and DVDs—costs the music industry over $4 billion a year worldwide and the movie industry more than $3.5 billion. These numbers do not factor in the growing (and difficult to measure) problem of Internet piracy, in which music and movies are transferred to digital format and copies are made of the resulting computer file.

A: comprehension: (8pts)

1.      Write the letter that corresponds to the right answer.(1,5pts)

a)      piracy is considered as:

1.      new practice

2.      an old practice

3.      a temporary practice

b)      piracy is:                     1. legal

  2. unethical

3. benificial

c)      movies and songs are part of

1.      physical property

2.      intellectual property

3.      both of them

2.      Answer the following questions according to the text.(4pts)

a)   Is it easy to pirate nowadays?

b)   What are the different parts of intellectual property?

c)   How does copyright protect the creative works?

3.      who or what do the underlined words refer to the text.(1,5pts)

He  (§1)                                its (§3)                                         These(§4)

4.      Choose the general idea of the text.(1pt)

a)      Stealing properties

b)      Hacking

c)      Killing creativity

B: Text Exploration (7pts)

1.      Match  these words with their definitions.(1,5pts)

words	Definitions
1.      A pirate 2.      Property 3.      violation	a.       Something owned by someone. b.      An act of taking the right of someone. c.       A criminal who steals along the saes.

2.      Combine each pair of sentences with the connectors given between brackets. Make changes where necessary.(2,5pts)

a)    Piracy is easy. Everyone can practice it at home. (so …that)

b)   There is a big loss of revenues. Internet users are violating properties illegally. ( because of)

c)   Stealing rights is unethical. Government should eradicate it. (wish)

3.      Classify the following words according to the  pronunciation of final (S).(1pt)

differences   -    times      -     clicks       -        industries

/s/	/z/	/iz/

4.      Reorder the following sentences to get a coherent passage. (2pts)

a)      the term has become associated in popular culture with a security hacker.

b)      In computing,a hacker is any computer expert

c)      who uses his technical knowledge to overcome a problem.

d)     While a Hacker can refer to any computer programmer,

Part two: Written Expression (5pts)

Choose one of the following topics

Topic one:

Piracy is becoming a dangerous phenomenon that is invading the whole world. What can you do to avoid being a victim of piracy? Using the following notes, write a composition of about 70_80 words -Protect our computers using high security system.                                                                               -Companies must devote valuable sources to anti-piracy technology to recover against data- loss                                                                                                                                                         - Control the market which is flooded with pirate software.                                                                            - Apply stringent laws to punish pirates.

Topic Two:Most people today tend to use internet to sell and buy goods. Do you think it is the best way to do business? Justify. Write an argumentative composition about the topic.