17-07-2012, 03:04 PM
Internet Piracy
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What is Internet Piracy?
Piracy conducted via the Internet
What do the Digital Pirates Do?
Since pirates steal stuff
Digital pirates steal digital stuff by transferring files back and forth
Getting without paying
Stolen files include:
music, video, pictures, texts, and software
sensitive material, industrial secrets, government secrets
The Types of Pirated Files
Music
2001, music files formed the largest category of piracy on the Net
MP3 files traded using peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies
Video
Next biggest footprint on the bandwidth scale belongs to video
anything from latest DVDs to sports games to music videos to pornographic videos
far fewer pirates trade video than audio (bandwidth issues)
There’s no copyright notice on it
and since there’s no copyright notice on an item it’s not copyrighted, right?
Wrong!
Almost every original work is copyrighted, even if no copyright notice appears on it
Since Berne convention, it’s not necessary to include a copyright notice on a work though it’s a good idea
If you don’t know for sure that a work is out of copyright and thus in the public domain, assume it is copyrighted
I’m not charging for it, so its ok
Actually, distributing the files is the copyright violation in the eyes of the law
It doesn’t matter if the violator is charging for the files or not
The only difference that charging for files or distributing them freely can make is in the amount of damages that can be awarded