The technological
advances in our time are creating significant businesses loss in the TV and
movie industry. With our youth learning how to use new technology at such a
young age, piracy is making it dangerous for the entertainment industries profits. This
idea of torrents came up in October 2002, which allows many people to download
large files at the same time, which made piracy so much more available and
easier for people to do. Websites like Napster,
LimeWire and Kazaa, that used torrents have become extremely popular to
download music. This led the way for people to start downloading bigger files
like TV shows and movies from many different people at the same time.
Piracy
has become so easy for people to do because with new technological advances
like tablets and other mobile devices which make getting online a lot more
accessible and available any place and all the time. People that are pirating
these files are not very concerned about getting caught for breaking copyright
laws because there are so many people that are sharing these files it would be impossible
to sue everyone. The TV shows and movies have copyright rules and laws to try
to prevent this type of piracy from occurring. For example, if a person gets a
misdemeanor pirating movies and TV shows, they may get a year sentence in prison
and/or $100,000 in fines. Some also can receive a felony conviction for piracy
of a movie or TV show and get 5-year sentence in prison and/or $250,000 fine.
In
the article by Dan Graziano he believes that this problem of piracy will not be
able to be stopped because the community that practices this has gotten too big
and it is more convenient and cheaper for the people that want the TV shows and
movie entertainment.
The
idea of privacy needs to be reexamined and the copywrite laws rewritten. The TV
and movie industries must keep up with the tremendous advances in technology
and realize that business has changed a great deal.
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