Many Americans today rely on the Internet for two main reasons: information and connectivity. Some may consider it as the biggest library available because of the endless information it can provide. It further enhanced people’s knowledge of what’s going on all around the globe and has been proved to be a very powerful tool that is available for anyone to use. Communication improved not just here in the United States of America, but also in other countries thanks to social media. Despite of all this, there is still an evident problem for American citizens when it comes to Internet Regulation. There’s an apparent government intervention when it comes to regulating the Internet. Under net neutrality, companies shouldn’t restrict what and how …show more content…
Economically, $12.5 billion in losses each year is due to piracy in the music industry, $2.7 billion in workers’ earnings are lost each year due to online piracy and almost 71,000 jobs are lost in the United States every year due to online piracy as well. It may seem that these numbers are horrifying, but one statistic proves otherwise. In the statistics for the highest and lowest piracy rates in 2010, the United States comes up the very top of the lowest piracy percentage, only accounting for 20% of media downloaded from the Internet. Most consumers in the U.S. obtain their media legally because they support their artists. They realize that artists are also people working and making their craft just like everyone else. Consumers may download the songs illegally, but if they really loved the album, they would buy the real deal. A whopping 86% of Internet users have taken some steps online to erase or mask their digital footprints and 55% of Internet users have taken steps to prevent surveillance by organizations, specific people or the government. Online privacy has been one of the main concerns of citizens in the U.S. Most Americans want anonymity when using the Internet. 11% of Internet users have had important personal information stolen or compromised such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information and 6% of Internet users have been the victim
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), 30 billion songs were illegally downloaded between 2004 and 2009. Even with sites like iTunes and Rhapsody offering legal downloads, peer-to-peer file sharing still exists. Illegally downloading music has had a significant impact on the music industry resulting in a loss of profits and jobs, and changing how music is delivered to the masses. (Adkins, n.d.) Showing that even having the ethically correct option P2P sharing of illegal media is still thriving. The RIAA reports that music sales in the United States have dropped
The internet is a resource with ever expanding content and applications for everyone to use however, net neutrality rules on the free use of internet remains a debated topic. The “Point/Counterpoint: Network Neutrality Nuances” presents Barbara van Schewick’s supportive argument on the applications of net neutrality rules, and the consequences of failing to do so. Schewick’s engaging justifications are well researched with arguments containing significant amounts of examples, strong and simplistic diction to reach her audience, and clean and smooth transitions to move between ideas.
I am Aric See and I am a senior in the Weidner School of Inquiry at Plymouth High School in Plymouth Indiana. Net Neutrality is a very important issue facing the United States, with many Republican members of Congress opposing the FCC’s Open Internet Order and the reclassifying of broadband to Telecommunication Services from Information Services. The members of the GOP who are completely against the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) reclassification, and attempts to keep the internet free, give many reasons that are simply not true, such as the FCC’s regulations will destroy the free nature of the internet. Because of the attempts by Congressmen with the GOP to fight the regulations, many Americans, especially small business owners that use the web as a base, feel that their equality and freedoms on the internet will be
Many individuals still believe in the progressive ideals that the Internet was founded upon, and want to see that it continues to be a place for innovation, where information is free and available. They don’t want large corporations having very strict control over that. Only a few days ago, the House of Representatives passed a bill in an attempt to limit the FCC’s authority on net neutrality. The debate on net neutrality is far from over, and no one knows how the Internet will operate a decade from now. One thing is clear, however: the American people have a huge influence on what will ultimately happen, so if they want to maintain the privacy and freedom that they desire, they need to continue to make their voices
Net-neutrality became a big topic of debate in the United States last year. Net-neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISP’s) should be giving access to all web traffic equally, without blocking access or favouring certain websites. In the first quarter of 2014, the FCC began to propose rules that would allow ISP’s to have control over their consumers access, basically going against net-neutrality. After being ruled out, ISP’s pleaded for the court to reappeal the case, which ended up ruling in favour of the rules by the FCC. This issue is interesting to look at for the ways in which the media reports it, because the majority of people are for equally accessed web traffic, but the media needs
Tim Wu, the original author of the term “net neutrality”, stated in interview with Robert
Randolph May’s article, “Why Net neutrality is incompatible with ‘Internet freedom’” states uniquely free from government intervention is fundamental to a proper understanding of “Internet freedom”. Also, he says, “those favoring net neutrality claim to fear that, without government
In the United States the Internet is the first place that everyone goes to when they want to get information. The Internet provides everything that anyone could possibly want and on the Internet everyone is considered as equals. That can quickly all go away. The only way to keep the Internet the way it is, is to preserve Internet neutrality. Internet neutrality, also known as network neutrality, is “defined broadly, is non- discriminatory interconnectedness among data communication networks that allows users to access the content and to run the services, applications, and devices of their choice" (Meinrath, Pickard 1). This means that the Internet is not restricted and the government or Internet service providers have no rule over how the Internet is run or what people can and can’t access over the Internet. Internet neutrality allows for “a neutral or open Internet, [...] where all websites [..] load at the same (relative) speed, and each user, after paying their ISP a flat fee, receives an all access pass to digital
Piracy, in music industry, is a huge problem that gets worse instead of getting better. According to The Guardian newspaper, 90% people between 14-25 years old, make music copy. Most of these copies are made in MP3 for personal music collections. The growing average was 300% in the last two year, in comparation to 150% of growing in two years previus. All of this, shows piracy is unstoppable.
This internet openness that is expected to come with the implementation of President Obama’s plan is better known as the FCC’s Open Internet Rule or Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality will allow internet users to go when and where they want with unlimited access to legal content on the internet without broadband providers being allowed to block, prohibit, impair, or establish fast or slow lanes to this material. This is to protect, as stated above, every United States citizen’s right to freedom of speech and expression of personal beliefs and interests. The rules set forth by Net Neutrality are no blocking, an internet provider cannot block access to lawful digital content; no throttling, an internet provider cannot impair service based on content, applications, etc. that the user is trying to access; no paid prioritization, internet providers cannot differentiate or favor internet traffic in exchange for money. (Open Internet 1)
Thomas F. Lee, President, American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (2015) stated, “No one is eager to see copyright infringement lawsuits against individuals. But copyright infringement hurts many thousands of other individuals. Most musicians who depend on CD sales and legal downloading are not wealthy mega-celebrities. They are artists struggling to succeed without a ‘day job’. They are ordinary session musicians who depend on union-negotiated payments that fall drastically when sales fall”. The Livelihood of smaller and lesser known artist are being affected because the illegal download of their music, the illegal download of their music means that there not getting any royalty causing them to suffer financially .This surge in the illegal download off music means that many smaller and less recognizable musicians will now suffer because of the difficult to make money in the industry because of the illegal download off music. “In October, members of 5.7 million U.S. households downloaded at least one unauthorized song using P to P services, according to NPD, which tracks PC usage from 11,000 households” (www.pcworld.about.com,2015) Many artist are having their songs downloaded causing them to lose money, and without the incentive there is no reason for them to keep recording. Artist lose lot of money to illegal downloads and with them not making any money many small band will stop putting out albums. The illegal downloading of music it taking away the incentive for many artists this lowers the amount of new talent coming out and is seriously affecting the music industry. With no incentive and the livelihood and wealth off the music
These days the internet has become an essential part to living for almost everyone but one of the controversial topics that people bring up is that whether or not the government should regulate information on the internet. Both sides have valid points which form a reasonable argument. Some people would say that they need to because of the dangers lurking around in the cyber world but the reasons for why the government shouldn’t regulate the Internet outnumber the reasons for why they should. The federal government should not regulate or censor information on the internet because doing so violates the first amendment and citizen’s right to privacy, degrades the educational value of the web, prevents the promotion and facilitation of
The music and movie piracy has been one of the major issues, which the world has been facing and challenging for years. Illegal music and movie downloading became more prevalent as technology improved. According to the statistics by Ipsos, “30% of the UK population is active in some form of piracy, either through streaming content online or buying counterfeit DVDs” (Lodderhose, 2014). Some people argue that music and movie piracy could be considered as same as theft which could have significant impacts on music and movie industries while others do not concern about it. This essay will examine the reasons behind the prevalence of online piracy and will discuss the positive and negative impacts of online piracy.
The internet is one of the few things in the world that is truly all over the world. Millions use the internet every day for more reasons than one person can think of; to connect with family and friends, find information for a research paper, or to achieve the perfect chicken masala recipe. The internet is made up of a mass expanse of web content and copyright, which is where online piracy comes in. Online piracy is the illegal use or distribution of copyrighted content, such as music, films, and can even include pharmaceuticals. Millions of dollars are ripped off every year from the illegal downloading of just music. In the visual that I have included you will see that America tops the list of music illegally downloaded from
Companies like Apple, have decided that it is best to get in with the downloading business. However, an end to the illegal downloading conflict remains to be realized. The RIAA and associated artists continue to wage war against illegal downloaders while computer savvy audiences persist in sharing music files online every day. While it is undoubtedly true that downloading music is a crime, it remains to be proven that it is wrong. Without establishing this principle, most downloader's are likely to continue the activity. Even with new, inexpensive and available means of downloading files, they can still be shared for free online. The rift must be repaired between music lovers who feel that they have been taken advantage of in the past and recording companies and artists who worry about their future livelihood.