If you have, then you have committed an act of piracy. However cassettes are analog media, digital media eventually turned out to be more harmful. So, When did the flow of free digital content begin? Piracy is ages old, beginning in print then music, then video and so on. The advent of the internet brought with it digital media, power for economy and also helped to create a healthy stock market. However, The advent of the inter

The reality exists that users do not want to pay for intellectual media. So, In five years, in ten years, where will file sharing be? Undoubtedly the recording industry will have to compromise with users and customers alike. CD’s before Napster costed in excess of 20$ a cd. With free competition, artists will have to find new ways of earning revenue. Artists will have to depend more on live-performances and memorabilia. Recording Companies will have to drop the prices, and hope that users will see some benefit in buying the CD over downloading the CD. Movie theatres have already begun proposing the use of night-vision goggles to prevent bootlegging. Software companies continuously attempt to find ways to protect their software. However their attempts are to no avail, there are billions of people online. Millions who know how to reverse engineer, disassemble and for lack of a better term “crack” software. How significant is the defence of even 5000 programmers against an army that large. An army that evolves and mutates to thwart any attempt at enforcement of copyright law is undefeatable Software companies can do very little but attempt to prevent piracy. Software piracy will in the future more likely be enforced by stricter punishment by the government for pirated software distribution which would present greater risk for file-sharers. It is obvious that we will see a great attempt by the government, recording artists, bsa et al to prevent file sharing altogether. All attempts at such regulation will ultimately fail, and the future of the industry will in the end be left to you.

net also damaged some parts of the economy. Before the internet, sharing files had to be accomplished through ma

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