For years, digital technology and the internet have provided a virtual buffet of digital content from which million have feasted for free. There are not supposed to be free lunch. According to the executives. They maintain that at a time of massive corporate cutbacks and layoffs, media and entertainment firms have to cut a little deeper because piracy.
You Tube once swelled with pirated clips of movies, TV shows, and music videos. In the last year, however, the site has begun filtering out illegal content. The move came after media conglomerate Viacom filed a $1 billion copyright lawsuit and as YouTube began partnering with Hollywood in a bid to offer premium TV shows and films.
Amazon handed over control of the Kindle 2's text-to-speech application when the Authors Guild claimed the function violated copyright law and could cut into sales of audio books.
In cooperation with the film and music industries, AT&T has begun testing an escalating system of warnings or graduated response. The ISP says it would never terminate service without a court order. Apparently, not all ISPs are as squeamish.
Reference: Has online piracy reached a tipping point by Greg Sandoval [Online], 28th sept 2011
Online software piracy is evolving from year to year. The
bad of online software piracy are impacts the companies that develop and
manufacture software, exposes users to a host of unacceptable risks, and
ultimately threatens intellectual property. We, as a software consumer, have to
fight against intellectual property theft of Internet piracy around the world.
As Internet access continues to grow up, both the opportunities and challenges
associated with its use – including the rise of Internet-based piracy –also
increases in scale and complexity. For over two decades, the Business Software
Alliance (BSA) has led the technology industry in protecting intellectual
property rights and combating software piracy across the globe. The role of BSA
is to identify and remove unlicensed software products online. The program’s
approach and targets are constantly changing to reflect the continually
evolving online environment, so it’s fighting the online software piracy.
They use an online auction tracking system and other
proprietary technologies to monitor, investigate and seek enforcement against
the distribution of pirated software. Once the pirate user have access to the
internet, they can be found via auction sites, peer-to-peer (P2P) sites,
BitTorrent index sites, one-click file hosting sites and other Internet
channels, including social networking, business-to-consumer (B2C) and
business-to business (B2B) sites. In conclusion, don’t use pirate software
become it could be dangerous to you.
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The Internet has opened doors and avenues of communication never thought possible half a century ago. The availability of information on the Internet extends to a great variety of digital media. Movies, music, software programs, video games, and other content can be accessed for free through many file-sharing networks and sites. However, the vast majority of this shared content is protected under copyright laws, and unauthorized distribution, also known as piracy, is illegal. The extensive copyright infringement found online has caused record, film, and other content industries to take action against file-sharers of illegal materials.
Fritz Attaway says illegal file sharing, is "free riding" because the users are not paying to view or own the copyrighted materials
Appearing on VOA News Now’s Encounter program, Fritz Attaway, executive vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Alex Curtis, director of policy and new media at the advocacy group, Public Knowledge, emphasized two types of piracy. There is "traditional piracy," which is commercial and involves bootlegged copies of content being distributed and sold by unauthorized parties. Illegal file sharing, on the other hand, is what Fritz Attaway describes as "free riding" because the users are not paying to view or own the copyrighted materials. Often, no money is being made from such distribution, but it still results in a loss of revenue for copyright holders who would otherwise be paid for their content.
Alex Curtis does not necessarily condone “free riding” but says it occurs because the music or movie industries are not meeting consumer demand for faster releases, flexible content and reasonable prices. Mr. Attaway argues that the answer to these demands is not to circumvent legal ways of obtaining copyrighted materials but rather to create business models that meet customers' demands.
The issue of flexibility is one of the foremost causes of illegal file sharing. Many programs allow users to manipulate content in ways that are not legal under current copyright restrictions, such as breaking technological "locks" on DVDs to copy them onto a personal computer. These locks are encoded into the DVD to prevent unauthorized uses. The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed into law in 1998, encompasses this addition to digital media protection. Mr. Attaway endorses this provision and believes the law is just fine as it is.
In contrast, Alex Curtis expresses some reservations about the DMCA. He says that, while the law was "well-intentioned," it has had some unintended consequences that are harmful to consumers' rights. In particular is the limitation on "fair use." Mr. Curtis explains that fair use is reserved for "criticism, comment, news-reporting, educational uses, and it’s very much akin to the concept of free speech." Under U.S. copyright law, copyrighted materials may be used legally without permission if the use is "fair." The problem with the DMCA is that it does not take into account "fair use" when it comes to breaking technological locks on content. All such circumvention is considered illegal.
In many other countries, similar laws are used to provide for “fair use” and to enforce copyright law. Fritz Attaway says that "we're trying to work with countries to update their laws" so that copyright infringement is curbed. This is essential in a world where information can be digitally accessed anywhere on the globe. Although progress is certain, it may still be some time before old business models adjust to the fast-paced world of digital technology.
In this week 4 poll result.
In the question is what are your thought on internet piracy?
There have four answer to choose, the first one is movies, software, music, and other application. In the poll have 7 votes to vote the poll. It has 1 voter vote movies, 2 voter vote software, and 4 voter vote music.
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Other than advice our followers on how to prevent or beware Internet Piracy, we too can guide you to a legal way of download music without getting any trouble from internet piracy case.
Amazon.com is a website that contain any digital files and available to download. Some of the tracks may need money but most of them are not.
Some internet users like to listen to remix song. ccmiXter is an website that provides remix song by users with a legal way. These are type of musics that provide a fresh feeling of the songs. Internet users have no worries any more on internet piracy cases.
mp3 is an old way to download musics with legal way.
Like to listen to live concert ? Internet Archive provides live musics as well as a quality of concert that will make you feel of you are live in concert.
Though most peer-to-peer (P2P) software—software that connects
individual users to each other directly without need for a central point
of management—and similar programs are legal, a lot of the materials available are not, and some programs may put your system and the NU Network at risk.
P2P software can be packaged with malware that can threaten your
computer's security, and some of these programs automatically share
everything on your machine, even if you've opted not to share.
In addition, traffic generated by P2P file sharing of music and movies
slows NU Network response time and detracts from the network resources
available for academic and research uses.
Firstly , how can we legally download the software we wanted to have? 1 of the ways is software
owners always provide the software to play the multimedia files, or need
a service fee to download and use the multimedia files. Most software
that play digital files is legal, even though some of them are not.
Some software have been declared by court as legal like Kazaa, this does not give you legal permission to download and share any file available, even if the software makes it easy to do so.
Always check for the EULA in every software you had downloaded. Once you have a software to
play the files, you have to pay or obtain permission to play when using
that software. When comes to decide whether they provide a legal multimedia file, look for statements that they have obtained the copyright
permission of the artists or the companies.
If you have another solution or ways, you can always share with us. We will always welcome you.
Reference: North Western Information Technology (NUIT)
We had created a second poll widget for the readers or visitors to vote it. We have done the Internet Piracy can harm our Mobile Computer. There are four answer of readers and visitors to choose own answer for voting.
There are total 4 voters on this second poll voting. There have 1 voter vote no and 3 voter vote not sure. I think must know about Internet piracy, in this blog we will give visitors more about Internet Piracy.
1.Don't do business without getting full company address and
contact numbers because some of companies who are unwilling to prove their company
identity and also provide telephone number for follow-up and others.
2.
Get full information/details on return, service
and warranty policies. Don’t buy the
product if any of the online distributors who can’t provide satisfactory
descriptions of these policies.
3.Remember to keep the
record until the software arrives and proves satisfactory. Print the page that
including the order number and also the email order confirmations.
4.Take some time to read review
and discuss with colleagues, family and friend before purchasing the product
because you can't see the product or the seller and distinguishing counterfeit
and illegal software on the Internet is extremely difficult.
5.
Check the product prices if the price seems too good to be true,
it probably is counterfeit product. As a guide, check the offer against the
publisher's recommended or estimated retail price. Beware if the online offer
price is significantly lower.
Liebowitz (2003) reviews these factors for the US. In Peitz and Waelbroeck (2004), we find that the real price of music has not followed any significant trend over the recent years, so that factor will not play a significant role. Price differences across countries and other countries specific factors that have not changed over the period will be eliminated by talking first differences. Factor will be controlled by domestic GDP. Factor in will be partly captured by the household penetration of DVD and of Digital Music Player. Factor is unobservable and will be assumed to be uncorrelated with the Internet Piracy variable.
There are several factors in addition to internet piracy that could influence cross-country variable in music sale:
the price.
country-specific environment of the music industry, including offline coomercial piracy, taste for music, the distribution of income of potential users.
income and economic environment.
substitution with other media and other forms of entertainment; new distribution channels; new media such as DVDs.
There are a lot of software consumer did not receive the software that they pay for it. Some of them can't even retrieve back their money after they discovered that the software was counterfeit.
Those despicable internet businesses usually quickly vanish after the scam and they don't care about the dissatisfied customers.
Nowadays, The web has increased software piracy. The web causes the piracy developer can easily to create a Web site and then advertise it. After that, they distribute pirated software and try to scam the software consumers. In addition, the growth of e-commerce, combined with anonymity and unlimited volume, had totally made the criminal easier to sell their product.
