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The Nature of Internet Piracy

            The mention of the word "pirate" can evoke powerful images of Somali criminals hijacking ships worth many millions of dollars. However, the alternate definition of the word-the illegal distribution or receipt of copyrighted materials-is the cornerstone of an economic and social phenomenon that encompasses a financial scope many times that of Captain Blackbeard. It is as such rather unfortunate that the public and the government share the same negative connotation of both concepts of piracy. Regulatory legislation regarding copyright infringement and person to person file-sharing negatively affects the entertainment industry and infringes on freedom of speech and information. There is a multitude of benefits to piracy, and arguments in support of curtailing the practice show various flaws.
             In recent years, the topic of copyright protection and anti-piracy measures has been a hot button issue inside the legislative forums of the United States. One product of this trend is the DCMA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it allows for easy takedown of content by way of claim-filing and investigations (Broes). Proponents of anti-piracy cite this precedent as an example of the non-destructive nature of regulation, but this short history of compliance does not refute the possibility of abuse. According to Intuit Research, a loss of $8.7 billion was recorded as a result of internet piracy. This alone cannot determine the net effect of piracy on industry since statistics detailing the gross income directly attributed to internet is unavailable. Another argument against piracy is the prevalence of virus threats amongst copyright infringing materials and sources. One caveat of this is view the cognitive fallacy of confusing causation and correlation. Rational thought on this matter reveals that non-pirated content distributors have the same access to infecting others than an illegal file-sharer.


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1. Piracy and the Growth of the Internet

In the recent years, especially, the growth of the Internet, has created new ways to communicate, exchange information, new forms of entertainment, new professions, new fields of study, and new crimes. ... Software piracy takes place in different forms. ... Before the internet came to a wide availability, counterfeited software found its way around local users and personal contact. ... As the internet became readily available and as faster internet connections started to come into existence (such as ADSL or ISDN), internet provided a fast and efficient way to distribute pirated software. ... ...

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2. Internet Revolution and Data Piracy

Internet Revolution The Internet revolution has the potential to transform every aspect of life of an individual. Not only is enormous wealth being created by innovative Internet start?... Internet surfing is rapidly replacing libraries as people find it a lot easier than searching for books. ... Data Piracy: When information was entirely analog in nature, distribution and publishing required physical transportation, printing on paper, recording in vinyl or magnetic tapes, or photographic equipment. ... Software piracy is still a problem. ...

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3. Ethics And The Internet

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4. Internet Censorship - SOPA and PIPA

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5. Music down

This question arises in any other piracy-related area. MP3 piracy and moral issues bind us together and are changing lives, while the technology advancements make it easier for us to realize it. ... For example, we are able now to watch television on the Internet, or have Internet services on our TV set, or use the Internet for voice telephony. ... The Internet phenomenon is the most obvious product of this convergence. ... The interactivity and global nature of the Internet has made it a powerful medium for the quick, reliable and inexpensive global exchange of information and explains its ...

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6. Sharing is Caring, Or Is It?

Issue / Background Sharing pirated music over the Internet just became a lot more hazardous. ... The lawsuits are part of multipronged attack by the recording industry on music "piracy" involving the Internet. ... Still, there is little agreement about whether the industry's tactics are having much impact on music piracy. ... Music is even of nature, it is the interpretation of the waves of sound that ring in our ears and that can potentially change ours moods; its omnipresence will remain true, just as our love for its rhythm will never die. ... We are all "made in His image" and, thu...

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7. Napster a detailed history

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8. DELL General Environment

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9. The MP3 Format

The small size and widespread use of the MP3 format has led to the rise of hundreds of Internet distributors. ... (RIAA, par. 2) The RIAA has initiated legal action against several of the afore-mentioned Internet distributors, most notably Napster. The heart of the lawsuit charged that Napster and its creator, Shawn Fanning, had " launched a service that enables and facilitates piracy of music on an unprecedented scale." ... Software of this nature is currently a violation of federal anti-hacking laws. 5 Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the...

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