Avast! Ye scurvy dog! This is the image usually conjured up when one is discussing piracy. At one point in time, this was correct - sailors roamed the seas freely pillaging merchant vessels. Now a days, Piracy has mainly slipped underground. Chances are, you may know a pirate personally without knowing the crimes they commit. For these crimes are not public, instead they are committed online. Filesharing is on the rise, much to the parent media corporation's chagrin.
Piracy is popular because of its ease of use, and widespread availability. The requirements are simple - If you've got a computer with an active internet connection, filesharing is possible. Pirates rely on a technology known as "Bit torrent" this software allows large files, like a CD or movie to be broken up into tiny pieces and shared over the internet. Let's say Johnny has a CD, he can share it over the internet with Billy. Now two people have essentially the same file. When Susan downloads the CD, half the file comes from Billy, and the other half comes from Johnny. This process continues until literally hundreds if not thousands of people "own" the file. This constant sharing speeds up downloads and ensures anonymity for both the sharer and downloader. Each person only shares a tiny piece of the file, allowing pieces to come from sources around the globe, obscuring the identities of every party involved. It is still possible to be caught by your internet service provider, but the sheer volume of pirate traffic makes it extremely difficult to catch each and every pirate.
The sharing of copyrighted intellectual property is illegal in the United States. Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distrib...
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...n the artist can be supported for their creative efforts?
Try as they might, the media will never fully stop piracy. The underground subculture will continue to "share and share alike" regardless of legislation or of what some corporate giant has to say because people have realized the truth. The truth is the media hates losing money, the artist doesn't care, and piracy is an economical alternative to purchasing a stack of CDs or DVDs. I don't advocate the sharing of copyrighted works illegally - rather, I encourage one to take a step back and observe both sides of the issue, don't lie on national television, and do support the artist in their creative ventures. Supporting the artist is what the music industry should be about, not lining the pockets of the executives in charge, for they are not interested in music as an art, only in their own personal gain.
Piracy is typically an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea ( History of Piracy, )
However, despite the strong copyright policy and punishment of the United States Federal Copyright Act, as enforced by police as well as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), piracy still rages on, especially...
An option that copyright owners have considered toward protecting their works from circulating in P2P networks is to use a variety of technological tools to prevent piracy. Such tools would be capable of blocking, decoying and redirecting the connections of unauthorized copyrighted file transfers. However, federal and state laws such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of ...
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 ...
Many have heard tales of daring, swashbuckling pirates sailing the seas on adventurous quests for buried treasure, but few people, however; have heard of the horrific buccaneers roaming in the waters. Some of the most beloved pirates today are loved and well-known for their great displays of audacity and selflessness. Pirates like these have been romanticized, and created to seem better than pirates and piracy actually are. Romanticized pirates have turned thoughts away from the true gravity of pirating, and how vicious and cruel the nature of pirating truly is. There are many misconceptions about pirates due to romanticized ideas.
The Golden Age of Piracy appeared with the rise of new empires and the finding of The New World. Though throughout history piracy has been a recurring problem, but none of those times compare to The Golden Age of Piracy. From 1655 to the 1730’s the greatest surge in acts of piracy were recorded in history, with roughly 2,500 to 10,000 total active pirates during this era. These pirates were seen wherever there were unprotected trade routes and treasure to be captured. Many pirates expressed the earliest ideas of freedom and democracy. Thesis Statement.
The history of piracy dates back more than 3000 years. “It appears that the word pirate (peirato) was first used in about 140 BC by the Roman historian Polybius. The Greek historian Plutarch, writing in about 100 A.D., gave the oldest clear definition of piracy. He described pirates as those who attack without legal authority not only ships, but also maritime cities (http://www.piratesinfo.com/history/history.php).” The most common meaning of the word pirate recognizes them as an outlaw and a thief. Anyone who was caught and tried with the act of piracy would be sentenced to death.
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.
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.
Although Britain cannot be blamed though for lack of trying, piracy still exists today. Yet, because the act continues at sea often far from land, it gains little media attention, and therefore less action from governments. China, despite being a number one producer of pirates, continues to deny that there is a problem while at the same time often pardoning those who are caught. Countries such as Indonesia and Philippines, which have been hardest hit in the past few years by pirates, are looking for international assistance. The West is, of course, looked to for solutions yet choose seemingly chooses to turn a blind eye, perhaps in the name of diplomacy. When the world is ready to combat the perpetual problem of piracy, it may discover that by intertwining tougher policies aimed at dealing with piracy with current or future trade negotiations, productive steps can be taken to initiate plans to curtail modern day sea wolves who prey on the helpless. The suggestion of ‘Piracy Charters’ will be discussed further as the means of which to add the topic of to multilateral agreements.
Piracy is a form of theft. Specifically, it refers to the unauthorized copying or use of intellectual property. Intellectual property is knowledge or expression that is owned by someone. There are three major types of intellectual property: 1) creative works, including music, written material, movies, and software, which are protected by copyright law; 2) inventions, which are protected by patent law; and 3) brand-name products, which are protected by trademarks. Many of the issues surrounding piracy have to do with the difference between intellectual property and physical property. A CD, for example, is a piece of physical property, but the songs on the CD are intellectual property. A customer in a record store can purchase a CD, but someone else still owns, or more precisely, has the copyright to the songs on the CD.
It's important to understand the different software piracy channels, not just to comply with the law but also to protect against bigger economic problems like lost revenue...and lost jobs.
According to the book “Pirate’s Dilemma,” “Are Pirates have to scupper us? Are they a threat to be battled or innovators we should compete with and learn from?” (Matt Mason 4). Piracy has and will always be a threat to the whole media industry and of course the economy. As long as people can download for free or buy never been released movies in a cheaper price, there is no way media industries can compete with that.
Production companies took a bold step forward by uploading their content online. People now are not obliged to buy a full album to listen to one song, for a minimal fee you can buy the track you want, the same goes for movies and electronic publications. The downloaded files though will be digitally protected so that only the person who downloads them can use them, and he can’t share them at home or with friends. Even with this step from production companies, a large portion of people who download music still do it for free. Moreover hackers came up with new ways to remove the digital copyrights so the same as before one downloads music and distributes them around.
Online piracy is a huge problem, one which costs the U.S. economy between $200 and $250 billion per year, and is responsible for the loss of 750,000 American jobs. These numbers seem huge: $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and child in America. And 750,000 jobs – that’s twice the number of those employed in the entire motion picture industry in 2010 (Freakonomics). In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures “can be substantiated or traced back to an underlying data source or methodology,” which in English means these figures are legitimate and that piracy really does hurt our economy.