The Negative Effects Of Piracy And The Entertainment Industry

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

Today’s digital knowledge has made it so easy to perform copyright infringement in order to create pirated movies. This in turn has increased the amount of illegal digital movie distribution. It’s so easy these days to make perfect copies and then distribute it across global networks. Torrent Freak research shows multiple copies of movies that are found online. Technology has made it more tempting than ever to violate the copyright laws without breaking a sweat. Majority of Internet users think that if it is on the Internet, it's free. But they don’t realize that even public display of someone’s work without proper permission is considered Copyright infringement. Displaying it on a website, putting it on film or transmitting it to the public in any other way are all examples of how movies are facing piracy issues daily. In spite of that piracy continues to grow at an exponential speed. Moreover, movies that deal with copyright infringement has grown over the years.

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

Like you, I also recall going on sites like Limewire to listen to music. Truthfully, at that time, I didn't see the harm in it. It wasn't until I heard about the RIAA suing the college kids when I understood the seriousness of piracy. I remember having discussions with people about this and recall that some would say, the downloading of the music was the equivalent of trying something on before you buy it. I suppose that some people may look at it like this but surely the RIAA was not. Also, according to "The Conversation", "although piracy negatively affects the recorded music industry, it has a positive impact on other areas such as live music"(2014). Somme may say that piracy drives the consumer to purchase tickets to see these artists live

In the year of 2005, there totaled 147 case files in the area of intellectual property crimes. (Weier) This number has risen exponentially throughout the 21st century, as more and more productions move to the realm of cyberspace. Hearing a coworker or peer bragging about illegally downloading films or music appears to be more common in the year 2016. The sudden advancement of technology appears to perpetuate a sense of virtual comfort in theft. Further, pro-piracy groups paint an argument that piracy composes very little potential to affect others negatively. Unfortunately, the resulting apathy cannot be easily targeted or terminated. End users may not have the experience or may simply not care much, as long as they possess the ability to easily get away with piracy. Laws should be pushed onto internet service providers in the case of formatting a response to suspicious client-server network traffic. The solution would be configured to allow privacy, while restricting the use of torrent sites that condone the distribution of illegal

The internet is an unregulated and chaotic environment that is only loosely governed by social norms that have been established by the more well-respected users leading the rest over many years. The anonymity of these billions of users allows them to break these rules and conventions with little risk of negative consequence. One of the biggest problems that stems from this is the pirating of media. Internet pirates will make media such as movies, television shows, and music available on websites such as The Pirate Bay, where users can download this content this free. This system takes money away from creators and designers and gives it to the advertisers on pirating websites.

had touched on how people are making a hobby of illegally downloading music. I found an article by Amy Adkins titled How Does Illegally Downloading Music Impact the Music Industry. She touches on a few subjects of how illegally downloading music directly affects the music industry. She opens up the article stating that 30 billion songs were illegally downloaded between 2004 and 2009 which is a staggering statistic. Napster came out in 1999 and was a free file sharing website where people were getting music illegally. The music industry has loss $12.5 billion due to the availability of free music. Some people have been taken to court for being found downloading illegally. In her article Adkins reveals that due to the illegal downloading of music

There are $12.5 billion in economic losses each year due to Piracy in the music industry. This shows how people are not taking piracy seriously and treating it not as a crime. Piracy is a crime and people should be able to use it against people in their cases. Based on the evidence in this article, companies involved in legal action should use emotionally charged language such as "piracy" to win their cases because if they seem to be copying an artist's piece without permission and selling it for free, it is piracy and piracy is a crime that they can use.

There are gray areas. These gray areas, in relation to piracy, are usually made up of those who have different opinions based on the situation. I stand in the gray area. The best way to explain the gray area is through analogies. One situation to consider is if a person owns a physical copy of something but wants to use it through a different medium, so the person downloads a pirated copy. Like with Robin Hood there are two sides to consider. One, the man has already paid for the product so it isn’t really stealing. Two, while that particular person may have purchased the product the other people who downloads the product may not have purchased the product. So, is it fair to take away the availability to those who want to have the convenience of using the product on different mediums just to keep the person who did not purchase the product from being able to download it? The question can be answered anyway because it is about the individual's

Many citizens are unaware that downloading music although free is illegal and others may think of piracy as a victimless. Individual artists, ranging from celebrity musical acts like Metallica to the stay-at-home mothers who sell digital scrapbooking kits in their free time, frequently speak out against piracy when talking to their fans. Grassroots organizations also work to educate the public about music property rights through online marketing campaigns. Technology has given the Music companies a fighting chance in preventing music piracy. Software programs can be created to require authorization codes or online registration forms that make piracy more difficult because they are only given with legal copies. For downloadable content, digital rights management systems limit the number of devices that can play a particular movie or song in order to stop people from sharing unauthorized copies. Unfortunately, there are still resourceful hackers and people in the piracy industry that still continue to find ways to get around these measures. Lawsuits may seem like an obvious way to stop piracy, but legal action is typically a last resort with the widespread use of the Internet, it is way too time consuming and expensive to track down every web site and person that is involved in the production and sharing of illegal music files. Piracy laws also vary from country to country, making enforcement rather

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:

We all know that downloading pirated music and films is illegal, but what exactly is it? The term piracy refers to the copying and selling of music, films and other media illegally; in other words you are copying and selling copyrighted media without the permission of the original owner (NiDirect, n.d.). With the massive growth of the internet and its ability to store and capture vast amounts of data, we have become much more reliable on information systems in all aspects of life, but it does not come without the risk of information technology being used unethically. With the number of IT breakthroughs in recent years “the importance of ethics and human values has been underemphasised” often resulting in various consequences. Not surprisingly one of the many public concerns about the ethical use of IT is that “millions of people have downloaded music and movies at no charge and in apparent violation of copyright laws at tremendous expense to the owners of those copyrights” (Reynolds, Ethics in Information Technology, 2015). This essay covers the ethical issues of downloading pirated music and films and the impact it has on music corporations and recording and film companies.

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

Digital or online piracy is one of the biggest if not the biggest criminal cyber acts today. It has been a major problem for nearly two decades. Sellers of digital products (ranging from music to software) are actively fighting the availability of pirated copies of their products, but despite more sophisticated copy protection, the problem is still out there (Sundararajan 2004).