Should the Government regulate Pirarcy? Piracy has become a big deal all over the world . Over the years internet piracy has incessantly sparked debate and has even reached global attention. On the BSA(Business Software Alliance) ninth annual BSA global 2011 piracy Study Moldivia located in the eastern Europe has the hight piracy rate in the wold . Their piracy rate is at 90 percent and their commercial value is at $45 million. Most people do not consider stealing something that does not belong to them, but downloading software without authorization is in fact stealing . It may seem harmless, but in fact it is way beyond that. Companies each year lose out on billions of dollar because of unlegal downloads . These illegal softwares are
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Even though companies lose out on billions of dollars in internet piracy they would have to spend even more money to monitor and censor the material. Some companies may even go to the extent of suing peer-to-peer networks and individual users across the globe, and just to find out that those users are just college students or low income people. Internet piracy is also beneficial to the artist and the consumers. Consumers can learn about new artists by sampling their music on the internet leading them to purchase more of the artist music and making the newer artist even richer. You can apply these potential benefits to local musicans or newer upcoming musicans. Getting their music on these rougue websites could lead to a bigger fan base across the world and then eventually leading them to earn some profit, but internet piracy can still hurt the global artists that we know today. In the article “Online Piraracy Isn’t a Problem” author Danny vick tells how the RIA( The Recording Industry Association Of Amerrica) believes “selective legal efforts when rogue websites business ignore the law and attempt to profit on the back of music creators.” He also said that “copyright laws are not supposed to protect the recording industry’s profis, but ensure that artists are incentivized to create quality works”, but these artists who do not …show more content…
By having hackers and other advanced technology people will always find a way to alter software, and download music or movies files. But if the government could regulate the internet more the pirarcy rate in most countries would significantly decrase. The governmet would help the music and movie industry, and even other businesses save profits. Internet piracy has become an big issue in the world and because this issue compianes have taken the action to rigged their hardware and software to make it even harder for people download illegally . I believe that the government needs to enforce and take some serious action to the people who are doing these illegal downloads and peer-to-peer sharing. This would help a lot innocent compains who are losing out on big
Even though companies lose out on billions of dollars in internet piracy they would have to spend even more money to monitor and censor the material. Some companies may even go to the extent of suing peer-to-peer networks and individual users across the globe, and just to find out that those users are just college students or low income people. Internet piracy is also beneficial to the artist and the consumers. Consumers can learn about new artists by sampling their music on the internet leading them to purchase more of the artist music and making the newer artist even richer. You can apply these potential benefits to local musicans or newer upcoming musicans. Getting their music on these rougue websites could lead to a bigger fan base across the world and then eventually leading them to earn some profit, but internet piracy can still hurt the global artists that we know today. In the article “Online Piraracy Isn’t a Problem” author Danny vick tells how the RIA( The Recording Industry Association Of Amerrica) believes “selective legal efforts when rogue websites business ignore the law and attempt to profit on the back of music creators.” He also said that “copyright laws are not supposed to protect the recording industry’s profis, but ensure that artists are incentivized to create quality works”, but these artists who do not …show more content…
By having hackers and other advanced technology people will always find a way to alter software, and download music or movies files. But if the government could regulate the internet more the pirarcy rate in most countries would significantly decrase. The governmet would help the music and movie industry, and even other businesses save profits. Internet piracy has become an big issue in the world and because this issue compianes have taken the action to rigged their hardware and software to make it even harder for people download illegally . I believe that the government needs to enforce and take some serious action to the people who are doing these illegal downloads and peer-to-peer sharing. This would help a lot innocent compains who are losing out on big