The Effects Of Piracy On A Digital Platform

Piracy has become a major issue in the United States. For every motion picture that has been featured in theaters also has been pirated onto the Internet the next day, and for every new musical album that is released, yet there is a free torrent file of the album within the same hour. Even though these online pirates steal music and movies from other companies and make a drastic profit, yet these “rogue” websites receive 53 billions visits a year from across the globe according to Creative America. The persistence of the thieves that break copyright laws of the productions has lead the entertainment business to place a definitive complaint to the U.S. government of the constant notion of piracy. While the notion of piracy was not left

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

In the global market that we leave in companies are trying to find any and everyway that they can to get ahead in their respective markets. This most of the time brings out the most innovate thinkers that can come up with a way to keep it’s company on top of their market and sometimes we see that there are companies that like to take a short cut by using non legal and malicious methods. According to Lewis, (1985), Software piracy is the illicit copying of the operating instructions and applications programs, which make computers work, is a large and growing industry. The Pirate Bay is part of a European social and political movement that opposes copyrighted content and demands that music, videos, TV shows, and other digital content be free and unrestricted. In the words of the Pirate Party, “the Pirate Bay is a unique platform for distributing culture between regular people and independent artists, and that’s something we want to preserve.”

Now the question is, how can we stop people pirating games altogether? The answer is: we can’t, at least not without violating the 1st amendment as some people have argued in the case of passing legislation on the matter:

In the article “Internet Piracy Harms Artists”, Phil Gardson explains how internet piracy such as online music sharing and other forms of copyrighting music hurts hardworking singers and songwriters. He also asserts that it is imperative that Congress should in act a law against these types of crimes to help protect artists.

Digital piracy on music has been a majorly disputed affair for the last eighteen years, about whether or not it favors the musical artists or affects them in a negative fashion. One of the many sides of the Digital piracy controversy expounds that it benefits the artist(s) by giving them a great deal of exposure that they may not have received had they not downloaded it for free, which in turn makes for a very significant acquisition in terms of sales on their part.

Internet piracy is a hot-button topic, but it is not one that we should take lightly. We as a nation need to quell the distribution of these stolen materials. Imagine if someone pirated teaching videos online to learn for free? Then what would happen to teachers? Where would we be without libraries and their indispensable resources? The days of Blackbeard may be gone, but if we, as a nation, fail to take action, well, we are in for some stormy

This report shows that digital piracy can reduce the growth of digital content. However it’s also encouraged many positives

Australia has begun to stand in favor of censorship by banning such things. Though Australia's efforts seem noble, they're so fundamentally flawed, it only increases the negative effect on the distribution of this malicious medium. The Electronic Frontier Foundation expounds on how this primarily valid idea is poorly constructed and will further increase the adverse consequences of this time of illicit dissemination: ".. filtering does little to curb the trade of child pornography, much of which is traded across peer to peer networks and VPNs" (EFF, 3). This same concept can be applied to piracy. Piracy is prevalent on the Internet, but by forcing regulations, people will only become more devious, and the effects of this will become more widespread. Furthermore, it can be argued that piracy helps small musicians and film studios gain recognition. David Blackburn, a PhD graduate of Harvard in economics did an extensive study on the projected amount of albums sold by indie artists in correlation to their piracy rate. Blackburn discovered that albums with a higher piracy rate sold more albums than those that didn't (Blackburn 21). Furthermore, artists that were not previously pirated resulted in up to a 10% sales increase when their content started being distributed illicitly (33). There is no

With technology changing and evolving on a daily basis, dealing with online piracy has become a harder and a near impossible task to stop and prevent. In some way or another, music can be considered durable. As seen up until today, music recordings can be reproduced at anytime and last forever. However, with that durability comes depreciation. Music deprecates as the years progress (source), and consumers have shown that they prefer new popular songs. The problem that rises with that is online piracy. When the recorded music industry began to rise between 1975 and 1999, the shipment of physical recorded music almost doubled if not tripled rising between $5.8 to $12.8 billion. As technology began to evolve, and online piracy began to shine along

According to Fritz Attaway, one of MPAA’s top executives who works to develop the movie industry’s anti-piracy policies, “We have no illusions that we will be 100 percent successful. Piracy has always been and will always be with us.” Continuing he talks about what their alternative goal is, “Our goal is to keep it under a reasonable level of control where we can make enough revenue in a legitimate market to recoup expenses and continue to make new movies” (Van der Sar, 2010). There is no way to eliminate every pirate in the world and so Attaway’s proposal is the only remaining thing to

Online piracy is commonly referred to as a threat to businesses in the creative industries. The WTO Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (a.k.a. “the TRIPS” agreement) defines piracy as:

“Before the days of YouTube and the Internet, a band 's chances of striking it big depended on record companies. If a band was lucky enough to get a record deal, it gained access to a label 's vast resources and connections. The company paid for the band 's studio time, … and got its music played on the radio, reaching millions of record buying Americans” (Majerol, 1). Now, anyone with talent can post a video of themselves and become an internet sensation, only to then receive a deal with a label to continue growing their career. The issue is, with the Internet came digital downloading, and with the growing popularity of digital downloading came illegal downloading, known as Digital Piracy, which has affected the music industry greatly. This issue affects everyone involved in the Music Industry. From the small CD store owner to the Artist on stage, everyone has and continues to be affected by the growing popularity of digital downloading services. Artists, producers, and songwriters lose an estimated 12.5 Billion USD every year to illegal digital music services. Further, the economic impact from [digital downloading] is an estimated loss of 2+ Billion USD (Storrs, 1). This money affects the “little guys” in the industry and the average worker within the industry.

As the success of services like Hulu and Netflix suggests, consumers are only too happy to pay for content that 's made available in a convenient form, and at a reasonable price. If the content industries want a genuinely effective way to reduce global piracy, they should spend less time and money lobbying for new regulations, and focus on providing innovative services that make piracy unattractive. [5]

The rise of the Internet era opened the whole new market for traditional media full of opportunities as well as threats. Online piracy being one of them because the music and film industry loses £5.4bn in a year and if it was reduced by 10% it could have created up to 13 thousand jobs in the UK. There are various attempts taken to fight with online piracy; a case study of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will be considered as well as other legislations attempting to regulate copyrights in the Internet. This