If your like the most people then you know you hate commercials and ads. All they do is get in the way. What if I told you there is a way around those commercials and ads. Is that something you would be interested in? Well I am sure most people have heard of piratebay.org, what most people use, and limewire from back in the day. Thats your answer. Your answer to watching those TV shows without commercials and listening to music without ads or even getting an entire album for free. If that is your answer, then you know your a pirate. A pirate who steals from people online. Just how it was with pirates who sailed the sea, the pirates who steal entertainment online today are committing highly illegal activities. You would not think of this because what care is there to you? It is not your work that is being stolen. There is nothing for you to feel guilty about. Almost everyone just thinks of it as a way of using a resource at hand. This resource that you use, and what an amazing resource it is, is called Digital Piracy. Digital Piracy is simply the practice to illegally copy and steal videos, software, music, etc. Expect to learn the hard ache that song writers, actors, or any other person who is in the entertainment industry go through. People in the entertainment industry, believe or not, lose tons of money from people leaking movies, songs, and albums before the release date. I know I would be highly upset, but then again it is not my work. Like I said before, what do we have to feel guilty about? Its a resource, and in the world that we live in, it is all about learning to use our resources. Stay tuned in to read and learn more about what digital piracy is and what it does.
I am particularly interested in how the government is combatting this issue and why they haven't eliminated all the possible ways of obtaining illegal digital media.
ReplyDeleteThey [US gov't] oversee practically everything else on the web, why has it taken so long for them to act on digital piracy?
Derek, I imagine there are multiple reasons. One is likely scale of issue. Also, if its as widespread as people suggest then a large portion of the public is engaged in it. It never works well when any government tries to enforce a law when a large portion of the population is dedicated to breaking it. Consider prohibition and the War on Drugs. Also, copyright law isn't one-size-fits all. For instance, it isn't against the law for me to just publish my content with no restrictions. You have to be able to verify that a piece of content is indeed under a valid copyright before you can verify its being pirated. Content is mixed and matched, reformatted, and relabeled and then shared, so much that unless you forced everyone to verify every piece of data they uploaded you couldn't stop it-even then, there's always a way around any system.
ReplyDeleteSome people today might say that it's not as big a deal as it was 5 years ago.With the way social media is today people tend to believe that publicity such as getting your song viewed on those websites or your movie watched on those websites is good. They say that because it gets the artist or the movies names out into the public and gets people talking about it. So my question is, do you think that even though its illegal and people are losing money. Do you think that they care that much because they are getting their name out there and getting people to talk about them?
ReplyDeleteJustin, from an artist point of view, they generally don't complain too much because they don't make more than a couple of cents off of every album sold. In other words, its never been what kept the lights on for them. Are their exceptions? Sure. Madonna, Metallica and the late Michael Jackson rallied against digital piracy because they were exceptions that had, after many years, finally negotiated significant returns on their album sales. Even then, the majority of their income was from live performances.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Justin and Aaron. I don't believe that an artist goes broke just because a couple albums here and there don't get paid for. The artists aren't making much at all off of each album. They make their money in volume. On the other hand, if EVERYONE pirated the albums then a few cents would multiply into a few thousand dollars.
ReplyDeletei normally listerning or watch on online and CD.
ReplyDeletethats what most people now are doing.
DeleteI think that the birth of spotify and iTunes have done nothing but hurt the music industry. These services were built with the record companies in mind and not the artist. Something sooner or later has to come along to make music like it was before piracy.
ReplyDeleteWith people and society today the likelihood of that happening is not high
DeleteI think sometimes piracy can actually help an artist. Even now, in the era of globalization, it can be hard to find and reach some of the resources, at least in a timely manner. Let me give you an example. I'm a K-Pop fan. The first time I got acquainted with Korean music was through a free (read: pirate) website that streams international movies and TV programs. As a US resident, I really didn't have any other access to international entertainment. I confess I dl'ed some albums and movies without paying a cent. But now they got me hooked :) Now I save money for concerts, buy albums to support my favorite artists and help them win various awards. I'm not the only one. If it wasn't for piracy, millions of people all over the world wouldn't know about SuJu or 2ne1 or SNSD, and these artists would not have revenues from international tours, let alone album sales.
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