Music piracy (copyright infringement) is defined, by Wikipedia, as the copying and/or selling of music without permission from the artist or recording company. ... The laws regarding piracy stem from the copyright law established in 1790 via the US Constitution. Ideas, inventions, and artistic works are considered intellectual property and is covered under copyright law (Title 17, United States Code, Sections 501and 506). ... One side feels that music piracy is a crime and should be punished by criminal law. ... Since Napster emerged in 1999, music sales in the U.S. have dropped 47 percent, f...

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The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly. Illegal copying is affecting the entire community of music. ... If you burn CD's from peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa, or Morpheus, or another free music downloading site, you are breaking the law. ... If you don't own the copyright, you have no right to distribute it. ... Stealing music...

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Using such programs such as KaZaA, Morpheus, and Bearshare, pc users can easily download shared files for free which raises questions about the copyrighting and infringements laws. ... MP3 programs should be allowed because it is not posing much of a threat to the record industries, is convenient and affordable, and would cost too much money to enforce copyright laws. ... Napster, an MP3 program shut down because the music industries felt it violated copyright laws, was only the beginning. ... "Any college kid with a tuition-paid account can readily copy any digital work and send it to t...

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Have you ever copied a cassette you bought in the store? ... The recording industry intervened and eventually coerced Napster to change its ways to prevent copyrighted material from being downloaded. ... Methods of preventing the copy of copyrighted material can always be circumvented. ... AudioGalaxy provided music-sharing services, but was recently limited to either non-copyright material or pay-per use copyright material (rhapsody) . ... An army that evolves and mutates to thwart any attempt at enforcement of copyright law is undefeatable Software companies can do very little but attempt...

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Copyright lawsuits are beginning to get ridiculous. ... As long as a person copies a CD they purchased to their hard drive, and distributes it to others through P2P, it should be legal. ... This should not infringe any copyright laws or upset any organizations like the RIAA....

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On the one hand, there are those corporate monsters that scream copyright infringement and push with litigation. The recording industry, for the most part, suggests that it is wrong to copy works from others and perhaps return profits for them. ... They don't agree with web sites distributing free music files of which have copyright protection. ... They can advise governments on the laws needed to protect artists and their creations. ... They are the international organization responsible for global copyright protection and enforcement. ...

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However it all comes down to copyright law, as the body of exclusive rights protecting artist's work from being copied without their authorization. ... Perhaps it all happened so fast it has taken this long to react, but recently artist have been lashing out in attempts to sue music distributing and file-swapping Internet sites, in one case demanding a hundred thousand for each song illegally copied. ... Our responsibility now is to deal with the situation and force the law to actually catch up and adapt to illegal music distribution over the Internet....

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