Data growth has given rise to complex new environments such as storage networks and an ever-increasing range of storage devices. Content-rich applications require support for a deeper level of the storage hierarchy, with policy attributes that can be tuned to guarantee levels of ser...

What should copyright holders do about the piracy of digital media? This paper first discusses the causes of piracy, with particular reference to the factors that lead consumers to engage in piracy en masse. Then it explores the consequences of piracy for copyright holders. The fina...