Anti-copyright

content and sharing it online count as a crime? Most people will answer ''No'' because people will think they are just copying the same file that they already bought the licenses for and sharing it to their friends, however, it is going against the copyright law if the company attached a legal document to inform the user they could not share it for each digital content. Torrent downloads or what is known on the web Pirate Downloads, works by having a user seeding a particular content to a website such

randomly pieced together from thousands of sources. However, The Pirate Bay, unlike other sites, was different. Its servers, as well as the men who founded the site, are Swedish. Sweden’s copyright laws are very lose, especially on content protected by foreign entities. American (as well as other nations’) copyrights don’t stand in Swedish courts. This seemingly untouchable strategy still stands today, as The Pirate Bay is the largest online piracy site in the world. Today, online piracy is a widespread

different worlds. In one, there are laws, regulations, and books about a matter called copyright; in another there is not even a word in the dictionary related to that. It is interesting to witness the two. It is somehow surreal how these two countries differ in terms of those rights. When I was introduced to the latest movies and music hits through alternative sources, we did not even know how to spell ‘copyright’ in Iran. In Iran, we gained access to the Internet when I was about 13-14 years old

widespread illegally downloading files has become cheaper and easier than ever before. Copyright laws are broken so often the basis of them are put into question. Each new generation of musicians, writers, and artists face more difficult odds at making a living from their passion. This paper will discuss the legal and economic concerns of copyright laws. First, this paper will describe the background and history of copyright laws. Then, this paper will cover the concepts of ownership and stealing. It will

the digital copyright law (Alexander 152). However, where one is brought down, many more will soon fill its place. It will be a never ending pattern of legal action taking a step forward to stopping copyright infringement and then taking a step back once new file sharing sites pop up. Recording companies were quick to assume that file sharing was to blame for the decline in sales, so they began to sue the thousands that took part in illegal file sharing (Netanel 2-3). While copyright laws may protect

was file-sharing, people would gather in concert halls for impressive music from some of the best known composers of all time. Today, there has been an abundance of ways to access and listen to music, in writing this paper, my goal is to discuss copyright laws, file-sharing, and the progression of how we access music. Before we reached the electronic musical era, there was good old fashion concert halls. People would gather together in the concert halls to see many different composers perform, all

BitTorrent, a nightmare for copyright enforcement agencies Using BitTorrent has become a popular and effective way of downloading files over the internet. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) internet protocol that allows files to be distributed via an internet connection. The use of BitTorrent itself is a perfectly legal and legitimate process of downloading certain files. For example, if someone wanted to obtain a large free to use file like a Linux distribution, BitTorrent provides

Copyright laws in regards to music should be repealed. The RIAA has misconstrued the perceived effects staring had on artist development and revenue, when in fact the perceived financial short-comings of downloading and peer-to-peer sharing are actually made up through concert-revenue and merchandise-revenue. It is important to take a look into the perceived effects done by the RIAA. The RIAA claim that file sharing reduces sales, with estimated displacement rates ranging from 3.5% for movies (Rob

law? Would he be infringing the copyright law? Would he be violating campaign statutes and other codes of ethics?

obvious reasons, a loss of revenue. Since the internet cannot control illegal downloads, the pay musicians receive is negatively affected. J.J. Arias, a Georgian University Professor of Economics stated in his academic journal, the enforcement of copyright laws in the digital realm proves to be a costly venture (Arias 124). Illegal file sharing networks are mostly ignored since it often costs more to find and remove file sharing than it is to ignore it. Because of this,