INTERNET PIRACY, Personal Views

this video is a brief explanation on video/music/software piracy and shows viewers on the streets and schools of manassas VA that piracy is simply, a "good" thing

here is my ESSAY, WROTE BY ME
Piracy is a crime; we all realize that it is illegal to download content that someone intends to sell. Considering piracy as the same level as stealing a car, or some woman's purse, is absolutely ludicrous. Everyday people like you, and me, are being bankrupt and slammed in jail for years for just a few clicks on the mouse.

This exaggeration on piracy must be put aside, and the good outlooks on certain "tweaks" or changes need to be taken action. Instead of flocking money and huge consequences on piracy an open mind must be introduced

I would like to support my views by showing you the exaggeration on illegally downloading content, but not just that, but also how piracy is actually accomplished. How easy it can be done and some actions that have been taken by major corporations against this.

According to Morgan O'Rourke in his article risk management Minnesota woman was charged for $222,000 for illegally downloading a play list of 24 songs in December of 2007, also she was eventually convicted guilty. She had downloaded the songs through an online file sharing website "KaZaa". This is just one of the 20,000 lawsuits on piracy since 2003. The songs, which have an average cost of 70 cents, can be charged up too $750 or up to $150,000. Petitions against The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) have been constantly contested since the judicial market has had piracy involved. In this case a donation website "FreeJammie.com" has been posted to help with her financial problems according to the $222,000 charge. The website had collected up too $15,000 in 10 days all through donations and petitioning people.

The internet is a massive network of interconnected computers worldwide. From the school, to your house, from china to Australia, anywhere can almost be connected to this series of endless information. From the Book "Downloading Copyrighted Stuff from the Internet" Written by Sherri Mabry Gordon Explains that The most common way people can download illegal or legal information and files is through P2P (Peer 2 Peer) file sharing. Music became very easy to transfer because of Mp3's, which stand for Mpeg Layer 3, which could make the files smaller but keep the same quality to send around the internet. In 1998, Bill Clinton signed the Digital Copyright Millennium Act Which States it is a crime to break copyright protection measures in commercial software the first large publicized P2P pile sharing programs "Napster" had 1.57 million users every day until the company was shutdown in Feb, 2000.

James D. Torr in the book Internet Piracy explains about how at $17 a CD almost, is way to much profit for music artists these days, if prices would be dropped down, then the percentage of pirates would drop down also in the music industry. Old movies that can't be found, and small bands that are very hard to discover, would be almost impossible to find and get popular if people were able to get interested in them. Therefore not even making them popular enough to make multimillion dollar profits in the future. Carl Schlyter on Iwouldn'tsteal.net explains the faulty propaganda that the film and music industry has put on too film and music pirates, basically there trying to put the law in the hand to criminalize whoever to make them seem like they are basically robbing you with a gun, they say they are helping artist, when actually they are just protecting there own benefits.

Barry Fox who write "The Enforcer" explains how using secure microchips in your TV's receiver by hiding a label in your broadcasts, and that even attempting to block piracy is probably a reasonable thing to do, but it will make small things that everyday people do almost impossible. Soon, you won't be able to record your favorite T.V. show and other simple tasks will just be blocked. People will get frustrated and rebel against actions like this and money concerns will not be solved when people start filing lawsuits against their own rights.

The T.V. and music industry thinks they have control over citizens across the world, what they don't understand is that these "industries" is also filled with citizens themselves who probably do perform in these illegal tasks or at least try to get by. People will always try to pirate and download music for recreation and social activities if high prices of the market keep merging. And eventually they will have to take a ridiculous action causing more chaos and money in lawsuits then ever before.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• PIRACY
• MYSPACE
• STEALING
• SCHOOL
• PIRATE
• VIDEO

[hcvang]

What are your views on rape? (I literally feel raped everytime some punk motherfucker steals what I've worked on for years of my life - yeah, that's right)

"It's good. I get laid"

What are your views on robbery? (this one is pretty obvious)

"It's good. I get free money"

What are you views on Piracy?

"It's good. I get free movies/music

I'd love to see how these children think when they've grown up, gotten a family and a mortage to pay for. Let's see if they have developed empathy then.

[gamefreak291]

@hcvang i dont think youve ever been raped. you cant relate being raped to losing a few dollars. sorry

[errorcode13]

You only interviewed people that are in School that was a very biased selection of people. Of course there going to like piracy teens are cheap I know this cause I use to be one of those cheap teens. I agree there are some benifits to priracy but overall its bad and no matter what you say Its still stealing.

[gamefreak291]

@errorcode13 the video was for class, it obviously isnt serious, plus i was like 16

[sclek2007]

That's why I live in Canada, the land where Pirates roam free =D

[gamefreak291]

dude take the dick out of your mouth, and stop surfing youtube to dominate the internet

i have my reasons you have yours

are you retarded or what?!

just stop! man your not accomplishing shit.... realize that

thanks for the input

[macdonaldc63]

This is why your generation has the worst music of all time and the worst movies. keep it up and there will be no more movies and music. You stupid fucks.

[wc1hater]

@B0thergirl Yeah, I'd be fine with it.

I'd give people the option to pay for it if they thought it was good.

You know, if the people "in charge" of the artists didn't leech so much money (JYP comes to mind) off of the artists, the artists would have more than plenty of money to get by through donations.

[wc1hater]

Arr... all your intellectual property arr belong to me... too.

[marshell1b]

What a load of drivel

[B0thergirl]

What fools. So lets flip it. If you created something original with your own blood, sweat and tears. The product was awesome and could make you money. After spending oodles of your own money and loans to develop it, months or years of hard work and education, you would be okay with people not paying you for its use? I think not!

[travelsonic]

Your post needs less rage, less terrible analogies, more logic and calm thought processing.

[travelsonic]

The point you made is non-sequitur, since you never proved stealing relevant. We are talking about piracy, which is actually very new in terms of how we deal with other's things - for once in history, or rather, as long as digital mediums have existed, people can "take" without taking, which is scary to many - and not without reason.

[Drewan27]

You know what? screw what people think piracy is a freaking crime straight up! People whine: "Well those companies and bands and musicians already make enough money as it is, so it doesn't matter if I get their music for free." Well who in the hell are you to say that??? Those people do this for a living and yeah they make a lot of money, because they make flippin' good music that people like and want to buy. The point is stealing is stealing no matter how you sugarcoat it. Pirating is wrong.

[Aasmund01]

People on the streets my ass.