With the fast development and utilization of the internet in recent years, music and movie piracy has been growing exponentially, making an inexorably genuine issue with the casual theft of licensed property. Evans (2004) claims that the more boundless the observation is that piracy is worthy, the more outlandish it is for people to distinguish that the demonstration of duplicating protected innovation is a misdemeanor and morally not right. However, the stakes of internet piracy nowadays are very high; As a matter of fact, the crime appears victimless because the misappropriation of the property is a matter of replicating them instead of detracting something from somebody that they probably won't have. Hence, Exertions to counter music and movie piracy have turned into an expanding center of the excitement business, which is additionally constraining the governments for greater contributions, Zentner (2003). And yet, most researchers have focused on mentality or expectations toward internet piracy in view of the propensity to under-report illicit and unscrupulous conduct (Liang & Yan, 2005; Rahim, Seyal, & Rahman, 2001). This literature review examines the Ethical issues about Internet piracy, the effect of piracy on the economy and the methods of preventing piracy. Whenever it comes to internet piracy, the most dubious topic that individuals contend about is the ethical issues concerning it. With its rise in popularity and acceptance by many, file sharing has sparked debate that questions the ethics of those that embrace it. Lunny (2001) believes that there are various fascinating ethical inquiries that could be surrounded from this conflict. One includes the conduct of the individuals who offer music records, making them ... ... middle of paper ... ...ncerning Internet Piracy about how internet piracy would affect businesses and economies, claiming whether is it ethically immoral or not and seeking different ways to prevent it. Yet, more concerns have been raised by Governments in order to prevent internet piracy because it is agreed by majority of individuals that in every way, it is unscrupulous. However, Internet Piracy has developed and will undoubtedly keep on growing for a long time. Although anti-piracy associations seek to shut down and prevent its spread, its extremely nature won't permit it. People will keep on discovering substitute systems for circulation. Internet speed will constantly get to become faster, taking into consideration faster distribution and theft. Clearly, Internet piracy is a critical issue. Although its history is moderately short, it is an issue that ought not to be neglected.
Since early in the 1990's, software publishers have been concerned about their losses from software piracy. The music recording industry now faces a much larger threat than the software industry. Its very existence is in question as music is extensively pirated through internet downloads and copying CD's. The total cost of pirating music is estimated at $12.5 billion annually, of which $5 billion is a direct cost to the recording industry. The recording industry has experienced dropping profits and has lowered employment because of the effects of music piracy (Blyth, 2008). Many argue that as a result of music piracy, the structure of the industry must change and the era of both big record labels and superstar bands is ending (Dvorak, 2003). Nevertheless, many people, especially college students, do not seem to regard music piracy as unethical. Understanding consumer attitudes may be an important step in developing a solution to the economic problem of music piracy. This study develops a model based on the Theory of Reasoned Action (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975) to promote further understanding of attitudes toward music piracy and how those attitudes influence music piracy behavior.
It is first beneficial to know the definition of piracy. Piracy has been characterized multiple ways from multiple disciplines. For the purpose of this paper, I will apply the definition of piracy from the 1982 United ...
Janssens, Jelle, Stijn Vandaele, and Tom Vander Beken. “The Music Industry on (the) Line? Surviving Music Piracy in a Digital Era.” European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice 17.2 (2009): 77-96. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 Jan. 2011.
Their study focused on information on causes, attitudes, and reasons for online piracy, which can help companies be better prepared to face piracy and stimulate legal commerce of their products. They proposed that secondary incentives, which may be harder to pirate or may not be pirated, would possibly make sales more competitive with the “free” offerings of piracy.
Piracy is the internationally recognized word to describe this type of theft. Dealing with piracy and there about such downloaders putting their hands in the pockets of Europe’s creative writers, musicians and performers and stealing their copyright income, for example, not to speak of the quantity of fake and often dangerous medicines and drugs on the market. Today the production of counterfeit and pirated products is carried out on an industrial scale.
One of the biggest controversies which has spawned from the popularity of the net is the piracy of music, software, and movies. In the past, piracy of music and movies was fairly small scale. The only way to make illegal copies of tapes was to dub them in a double tape deck. This process was slow enough that music companies and movie studios didn't really worry about it. With the advancement of technology, however, piracy has become as easy as burning a CD or downloading music from the internet. The ease with which people can get free copies of songs or movies, production companies have tried to crack down on piracy.
In this paper, I will attempt to describe the piracy problem in China, discuss how the Chinese government is dealing with it, present the global effect, and finally arrive at what would be an ethical solution to piracy fitting for China's situation.
"4 Ways In Which Internet Piracy Can Be a Good Thing." MakeUseOf. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2014.
Piracy has remained the same for hundreds of years. No matter if it’s a corsair raiding a ship for its booty in the 1550s or a hipster illegally downloading a song nobody has heard. The only thing that has changed is how it is executed: by the swing of a sword, the shot of a gun, or the click of a mouse. To understand the effect piracy had in the past and continues to have on our modern economy, we have to find why new methods of piracy arose.
Millions of users worldwide use online file swapping services, in order to download free music. Record companies, needless to say, are not very happy about this, neither are many musicians. This paper presents the historical and legal background of this subject. Then, it discusses the morality of such free music services, based on two major ethical theories: consequentialism and contractianism.
Physical piracy-the copying and illegal sale of hard-copy CDs, videotapes, and DVDs-costs the music industry over $4 billion a year worldwide and the movie industry more than $3.5 billion. These numbers do not factor in the growing (and difficult to measure) problem of Internet piracy, in which music and movies are transferred to digital format and copies are made of the resulting computer file. Journalist Charles C. Mann explains why Internet piracy has the potential to be vastly more damaging to copyright industr...
In today’s technological age and consumer-driven economy, there is no doubt that media piracy and file sharing are in demand and makes a big business. Not only the so called “bootlegged” materials cost less, but most of it also managed to completely imitate the quality of the original materials. It is much easier to people to download movies or music online or buy bootlegged DVDs for 5 dollars than to watch the movie in theaters or pay for the whole CD when there is only one song that the person likes. People know about the possible consequences of these actions, but they do not have a choice especially in these times of economy recession, plus everyone nowadays is doing it, so it would not be considered such a big deal at all if they illegally download or purchase copyright materials. On the other hand if everyone is doing it, why there are still some people getting caught? Not that they should not be punished, but being put into jail and paying a fine that is ridiculously impossible to pay are just practically harsh. Maybe if those people are business tycoons of counterfeit materials, but the fact that most of those people getting caught are just ordinary people trying to be practical and doing what the rest of the world is doing which is doing these “illegal” downloading or purchasing bootlegged movies and music. The government and the entertainment industries are using ordinary people as scapegoats and have been doing draconian methods in moms, children and maybe even old people by suing them for downloading or sharing pirated materials for free, because of the fact that they are having a hard time pursuing the big time “master minds,” who are making a profit out of someone else’s work.
There are a lot of people who download music and movies without paying. The main reason that this is such a big issue is because piracy substitutes for a legitimate transaction; for example, someone who would have originally bought a DVD of the movie Young Guns but instead downloads it for free on The Pirate Bay. In this case, the person pirating the movie or song would never have bought it. This happens frequently if the “pirate” lives in a relatively poor country, like China, and is simply unable to afford to pay for the films and music he or she downloa...
At the dawn of the internet, many things such as books and text became obsolete, due to insufficient monitoring of internet activity and sites. Individuals were able to gain free access to books and publications that normally needed to be bought, or required a fee. This is something that has caused problems for booksellers and publishers. Now, as technology advances, it also begins the decline of music, software, and television industries—but something can be done before it’s too late. Illegal downloading is a problem that affects us all, either directly or indirectly. Many people do not take it too seriously. They have not realized that it is an epidemic; like a disease that keeps growing as people become more knowledgeable about computers and learn more about how software runs. People openly burn music CDs and download music and movies for friends who in turn give it to their friends; it’s a never-ending cycle on illegal practices. The problem started when Napster came out and should have ended when it was shutdown. Unfortunately, not enough has been done to stop the illegal transfer of files. It’s time someone takes full action and ends this detrimental offense.
The first reason why downloading and uploading copyrighted materials from the Internet should be legal is that downloading copyrighted materials positively affects the economy. The European Commission Joint Research Center reported that the profits of music companies would be 2% lower if uploading and downloading copyrighted materials were banned. However, music companies are able to acquire more profits despite illegal downloading because many people tend to purchase CDs or DVDs after watching or listening to copyrighted materials for free. Moreover, the research showed that people who download music illegally spent more money to buy music than people who did not download illegally. In addition, research conducted by the Swiss government informed that one-third of Swiss people downloaded copyrighted materials from the Internet because personal use of copyrighted materials is legal in Switzerland. Even though there is a fact that many people can download copyrighted materials from the Internet legally in Switzerland, the amount of money that people spend to buy copyrighted materials is not f...