P2P filesharing

Certainitly P2P is in some hot water. Currently, the RIAA and the MPAA(Motion Picture Association of America) are battleing the P2P networks in a proproanganda. This has been going on for quite awhile now, with no real results other then the shutdown of Napster in Feburary of 2000, which was credited to the persistant legal push of the RIAA. Since then, the RIAA has been trying to forge a propraganda war, aimed at the university presidents, corporate CEOs, and the filesharers themselves. By trying to discourge filesharing by propelling the notion that filesharing among P2P networks is illegal and down right stealing. But on the contrary, it has not panned out as the RIAA and MPAA had envisoned. Due to the failure of their war against filesharing, they have reluctently turned to the court system and the political spectrum. The RIAA and MPAA were trying to stay as far away from the courts as possible, for that just make matters even more sticky for both sides. It was and still is a delicate situation, in which the RIAA and MPAA do not want to label themselves as greedy or drastic. Ultimatly, as all else has failed, they turned to the polictians to help the war against online filesharing. California Representive Howard Berman from Los Angeles has steped forward in the quest to end online filesharing. “His soulution? Make it legal for the entertainment idustry minions to hack into such networks in order to block the transfer, copy, or display of stolen works. (A Corporate Posse, p.1) The bill, dubbed creativly the “Berman Bill,” would make it totally legal for a representative of the entertainment idustry to hack into your computer, without a warrent and distupt your actions. “Corporate owners without a warrent could decide whose machine to hack, provided they gave the U.S. Department of Justice seven days' advance notice of the technologies they intendted to use.” (Corporate Posse, p.1) After getting the go-ahead from the Department of Justice, the entertainment industry, under the Berman Bill could infect a Mp3 on a private computer with a virus that could crash the computer. “They could launch spyware, installed without your knownledge when you view a movie trailer, perhaps that monitors the movies you watch to make sure they were legally obtained.” (Corporate Posse, p.1) Also in the arensal, would be attacks onto P2P network users, and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on people who intentially or accidently have copywritten material on their hard drives. This scary piece of legislature, would be monitored and referred by the Department of Justice and would have a limit of fifty dollars worth of damages to anyone who holds illegal copywritten material. “The Justice Department would serve as referee, reviewing complaints from aggrivated users and determining which parties could pursue claims for damages in court.” (Corporate Posse, p.1) This proposed law could escalte into a madness of false proporations, one that could facilitate more harm then good. “It would spawn endless legal tangles from innocent people harmed in error and from pirates whp claim excessive damage. About the only good thing you can say is that the bill has little chance of passing.” (Corporate Posse, p.1) Thank goodness.

The times they are a changin. Technology is ever increasing, always making change in our lives. Seems like someone forgot to tell that to the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industy Assocation of America. They still think they can get their “dinosaur” sales method back to what it once was. I say PHAT CHANCE. I blame this whole situation on the RIAA and the MPAA, for failure to adapt to today's consumer and today's technology. Instead of embracing the online form of music distribution and working around it, they have bitterly fought it and threanted its consumer base with moral and legal consecquences. The days of robbing consumers with $18.99 CDs are long go

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