File sharing

secret that file sharing, legal or illegal, is on the rise. For most folks in their twenties today, they may not be aware of a world without piracy. In fact, they may not even be aware that certain kinds of file sharing is illegal and punishable by law. To understand why file sharing is so prevalent in modern society, the background of this kind of sharing needs to be explored. Napster began in June of 1999 by Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker as a peer-to-peer file sharing system.…

through media sharing, the similarities to tape recording, and most certainly the often crude copyright laws. These laws were established in a time before computers and - while bills like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are making copyright relative to today’s technology - most of the rulings turn out as extremes. Programs that obviously aid in piracy can escape a court case unscratched; or record labels can sue for ridiculous sums, as with the case involving the file-sharing program…

I remember at an early age receiving my first cassette tape, which happened to be a gift from my mother. This tape contained the album “Surfin’ Safari” by The Beach Boys and was a life-long favorite of my mothers. I would play this tape over and over again, singing along with the band and dancing around to the sounds of the guitar. This was the earliest memory I have where I can clearly recall when my obsession with music began. From this early point, I began diverging into many different genres…

Illegal downloading also known as file sharing enables people throughout the world to share information such as movies, music and documents. The various industries have been effected by the activities of illegal downloading. Music artists around the world were losing out on thousands if not millions of dollar worth of profit from CD sales. The illegal downloading will make the owner give up and they will not interest produce materials with the loss that they have to face. In this situation,…

between piracy, ethics, and the future of the music business will provide some insight into this question. Piracy is the process of acquiring music illegally without payment to the copyright owner (RIAA). Piracy includes sharing, downloading, copying, distributing and peer-to-peer sharing of music (RIAA). Those that are affected by music…

The music of the younger generation always seems to strike fear into the hearts of the older generation. One only has to think of the beginnings of Rock and Roll and how the older crowd predicted youthful promiscuity, violence and anarchy. It’s easy to see why the idea of censoring music came about and how that idea still plays out in the music of today’s youth. One only has to listen to certain songs on the radio today to find that the “bleep” of censorship is still in fashion. Oddly enough…

The illegal downloading or called torrenting, which means sharing the movie & TV series through peer-to-peer on the internet, has been an open secret for a long time. Many people use it as a tool to entertain themselves, but there are also many people against it. Though all these argumentative thoughts from different people, the article “Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy” by the author Christian Barry gives his answer very persuasively Firstly, the use of logo seems…

Does Barbro have the right of Re-sale ? In the Usedsoft case the CJEU held that the grant of an unlimited license together with the possibility to download a copy of a computer program is tantamount to a first sale, which exhausts the right of distribution, so that a further resale of that copy cannot be opposed by the right holder in this case ,Network Inc . This is to mean that Barbro would enjoy the benefits of being part of a first sale contract and as such she can resell the albums…

When home computers became readily available, burning CDs and peer to peer sharing between friends was even more popular and was damaging the music industry. But the revolution of high-speed Internet and everything that came with it left a greater scar on the music industry. When music streaming became popular, there began to be…

Travis dropped out of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998 to help create an organization called Scour Inc. Scour Inc is a multimedia search engine and a peer-to-peer sharing service. Interestingly, according to P.J Huffstutter, in his article “Scour Files for Bankruptcy Protection, written on October 13th, 2000, in the Los Angeles Times, Scour Inc. declared bankruptcy in 2000 due to numerous lawsuits around the notion of copyright infringement (Huffstutter)…