Analysis Of Bittorrent, A Nightmare For Copyright Enforcement Agencies

Piracy has always been an issue for intellectual property owners. Piracy existed even as early as the 1500’s. In one famous instance, Renaissance artist Marcantonio Raimondi copied some of Albrecht Dürer’s works and claimed it was his own (Gambino, 2011). Politicians and content creators try to combat piracy with laws and lawsuits, but people engaging in piracy remain active and elusive. However, the development of the Internet has exacerbated this issue. Technological advancements, specifically the advancements in file sharing, have made the exchange of information extremely inexpensive, quick, and easy. People have direct access to unauthorized copies of millions of movies and songs due to programs such as Napster and Limewire. Thus, illegal

When I was in middle school, the biggest way to get music for free was a website named Limewire. Nothing was more exciting than to be able to hear a song on the radio then go home and download it to our desktops. Also cool, was the fact that if one of us didn’t have a song, our friend could simply “burn” it onto a c.d. for us. That was the only way we knew how to get music, aside from going out and buying the whole album. Apple’s iTunes was just starting out and iPods were just being created. Limewire was the way to go. Little did we know that Limewire was illegal and costing singers, songwriters, labels, and everyone associated with just one song, huge amounts of money.

P2P: P2P (Peer-to-peer) is a networking application that partitions tasks or workloads. P2P works once opening its application/app, once opened it will form a peer-to-peer network of modes. P2P violates copyright laws to reproduce and distribute copyrighted music, pictures, software, etc.

Kickass Torrents (KAT) owner, Artem Vaulin's motion for dismissing the charges that were filed against him has been rejected by the United States court.

“Comcast blocked all encrypted traffic to BitTorrent back in 2007, they claimed it was because BitTorrent was used for copyright infringement…” (eff). But Comcast didn’t take into account the users who weren’t pirating. I’m not going to deny piracy being an issue with the free internet because it will be. This is a problem many internet providers try to push to gain support. It’s hard to strike a balance where we can protect the people’s right to speech and knowledge and also keep piracy low. Plus it’s very difficult to stop piracy that happen worldwide because each country has their own policy on

Along with the development of a file format (MP3) to store digital audio recordings, came one of the new millennium’s most continuous debates – peer-to-peer piracy – file sharing. Internet companies such as Napster and Grokster became involved in notable legal cases in regards to copyright laws in cyberspace. These two cases are similar in nature, yet decidedly different. In order to understand the differences and similarities, one should have an understanding of each case as well as the court’s ruling.

The internet is like an ocean brimmed with information (figuratively and literally if you count all the gigantic cables buried on the sea bed). Like any good ocean, it’s vast, large, and expansive; far from what our eyes can see. It’s a place of wonder and amazement, a place that triggers one’s urge to explore, to discover, and ultimately to conquer (if you’re Comcast). The Golden Age of Piracy is easily relatable for netizens, the romanticism found in traversing the never ending sea, unencumbered from governments, laws and principles, while harboring all sort of individuals with diverse interest, value and taste. The internet is the last place with true freedom in a world that is becoming progressively more restricted. Net neutrality is the

The torrent file is a file that contains only data which identifies the components that the digital file has been divided into. This in order to facilitate distribution of this file, an address for one or more trackers is a rule specified in a torrent file. (Stockholm District Court Verdict, 2009). Basic knowledge of P2P and Bit-Torrent is needed to understand the direct work of The Pirate Bay’s platform.

The way Napster worked is by searching other peers "shared" files. Let's say that someone was searching for any song by the band Metallica, the search would report back what is available to be downloaded. Once you double-click on that first mp3 that you would like to download, you officially become "fair game" for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After the birth of Napster, there was an explosion of programs that tried to leech off their fame. The next big thing comes when a new and more efficient program to share files emerges. During 2002, a program called BitTorrent arises. This program revolutionized peer-to-peer downloading for many reasons. First and foremost, because of the percentage of broadband users, downloading a music file has become an extremely quick and painless task. Using Napster with a phone-line connection, it would take an average of half an hour to download one song. With BitTorrent and the increase of broadband users, it takes a matter of minutes (if even) to download the entire album. But why is BitTorrent so successful? BitTorrent's successfulness is attributed to the method users share their files. Instead of downloading the file from one user, BitTorrent breaks up the file into thousands of pieces and takes a part of the file from each user that is willing to share it. For example, let's say that there are 10 other peers downloading the T.V. show Lost, 11

Since the 1990’s, the world has experienced boundless improvements and expansion with information systems, technology and the Internet, and as a result, laws have had to evolve as well. Such laws have been up against some very complex and sensitive issues such as how to control piracy of copyrights. In response to such complex issues, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998.

We offer a simpler and immediate alternative to finding a torrent. In Holland, we had a similar situation. It was a country with a high rate of piracy. And the same thing happened in Canada. In both we are a successful service. We can think of this as the bottled water business. Tap water can be drunk and is free, but there is

The Napster web site made file swapping over the Internet available via the software necessary for the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file transfer to work. P2P is software that when downloaded onto someone 's computer, enables that person to access another person 's computer to find and copy certain files that the software is designed to recognize. It was used primarily for copying MP3 files, as a result avoiding the need to actually purchase music on CD or some other format.

Due to their unwillingness to see the opportunity to evolve and change as the trends began to foreshadow the concept of file sharing within the music industry, music labels were forced to transfer their power into the consumer's hands. One of the commonly cited causes for the lack of success of organizational change is “resistance to change.” (Palmer) Streaming music also known as downloading music are common legal terms used in today's age to describe how to acquire music, however in less than twenty years ago the idea of file sharing was deemed a no-no. The introduction of MP3 files, file sharing networks such as Napster and Kazaa, and the widespread practice of illegally downloading copyrighted music files constituted a

So I was walking into the store when I heard my song being played. I turned and walked up to the group of kids that were playing it and they instantly recognized me. I asked them if they had purchased the album and they started laughing. Mind you, they really weren’t that old when one shouted out, “We download out music off a website.” When I got home I called my agent and told him about this website and he let me know that he knew about it and it was costing us hundreds of dollars.

Peer to Peer file sharing networks are dangerous and pose many threats to those who choose to use them. While we know that p2p traffic consumes almost 70% of all internet traffic and in March 2014 there were 31.7 million unique ip’s using these networks (P2P Still Ranks, 2014.) These networks are popular for making popular and copyrighted content available, much of the activity that takes place on these networks is either sensitive or illegal which is why developers have gone a long way to make these networks and their users as difficult to track and anonymous as possible. Current p2p software such as BitTorrent use protocols that make it very difficult to determine where traffic is going or coming from (not difficult enough though.) While malicious activity and attacks through these networks has been improved upon in recent years, p2p