Online Piracy and File Sharing

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Multimedia, everybody loves it, weather its Music, Movies, Video Games, Pictures etc. we all enjoy it. You would usually or typically buy your music, movies, video games or photos online, from some online media service, such as iTunes or Amazon .etc. or at a movie store, or at Wal-Mart. Nothings free weather you’re paying 99 cents for a song or $20.00 for a new Movie that just came out, it’s not free.

Sometimes, you might let your friend borrow your movie or something, and then they might lend it to their friend, it might seem like it was free, but it wasn’t you still had to pay for it. There are some people who choose not to pay for their media, and usually obtain their content through the internet for free from file sharing websites.

There are the people who download the content, and then there are the people who upload the content (illegally) this is called piracy which, is illegal. There are people who believe that multimedia should be free and shared, there are lots of places, and websites that believe this and host copyrighted content illegally, But there is this one certain website that dwells in and believes in multimedia being free and shared, they are called The Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay or TPB for short is a website that was launched 8 years ago; it is dedicated to providing free multimedia like, Music, Movies, Video Games and Software. This media is provided by files called Torrents, which are downloaded and put in a torrent manger. The use of torrents is based on file sharing; the way it works is that, somebody downloads a file and then when somebody else downloads the file again, it is downloaded from the first person who downloaded it, this is called file sharing.

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The only way this can be done is by censorship of the internet. There are lots of people who are for S.O.P.A like the MPAA (of course) and the Music Recording industry. Etc. There are also lots of other companies and people who are totally against S.O.P.A and also think that it is censorship, they are Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Mozilla, LinkedIn, Twitter, eBay, AOL, and Zynga.

These companies have petitioned against S.O.P.A, there are so far 1 million petitions signed against S.O.P.A . The hope that the bill will not pass is big, if it does it will affect lots of companies and projects, such as Google. If S.O.P.A were to pass then there would be no more Android , the bill prevents all open source projects from being created.

Hopefully the bill will not pass and the websites we all love and use , will not fall into the fate of S.O.P.A , and be shut down.

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