Internet Piracy is still a relatively new concept. Illegal P2P file sharing started with Napster in 1999 and, due to the nature of what P2P sharing is and international law, is often difficult to stop or quell within the United States.
Top P2P File Sharing networks and applications
Noteworthy companies and their founders
Napster and their developers: Shawn Fanning Sean Parker
MegaUpload and it founder Kim Dotcom
How can copyrighted material be protected?
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
France's internet piracy law of 2009
SOPA PIPA
Trends of Piracy
- Piracy pays really well
- Where there is money to be made people will find away. Practically all major pirate sites are offshore from the US.
Same major Torrent Sites
megaupload->Hong Kong
thepiratebay->Sweden
isohunt->Canada
- People who found file sharing sites tend to get off scott-free... Kim Dotcom is probably to get off scott-free just like the rest of them.
- Some file sharing founders even on to start other initiatives . Sean Parker became a chief investor of a legal form of Napster, Spotify.
- Its extreemly popular
- Laws that "intend" to stop copyright infringement on the internet, so far, give too much authority to government. This makes for a lot of legitimate internet use potentially impeded upon, which makes a lot of legitimate internet companies very angry. As a result, no clear solution is available since the very nature of the internet is about open connectivity. So what does this mean? Piracy won't be a thing of the past any time soon.
- A lot of hackers get really angry whenever a government tries to crack down on CopyRight laws.
Personal Opinion
- Since piracy is not going to go away, the agencies who create various things like movies, music, books need to think of ways to make a profit while offering their material legally and for free ( or close to it).
- Rather than making everything illegal, companies need to create new incentives to not pirate that benefit both parties, like advertisements on streaming sites, bla bla bla
- People will continue to pirate and think of clever ways to stay one step ahead of anyone who tries to stop them.
- I want the government to stay out of the internet but I do think that it is a right of the companies who create the infringed content to be able to protect their investments.
