As many are aware, the content is obviously not priced from copyright. ... Does the files digitally formatted relocated defend the providers against the law? ... Hundreds of copies of films are multiplied daily because of the illegal activity of movie piracy. ... According to dictionary.com, a copyright is; "the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc" (Dictionary.com, 2015). Individuals have no granted rights to file share and online pirate as it is deliberating breaking the Australian law....

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An alliance of record companies sued Napster on the grounds of copyright infringement. These record companies believe that "Napster is thus enabling and encouraging the illegal copying and distribution of copyrighted music"(RIAA-recording industry of America). ... Instead of tapes being copied and shared, MP3s are now copied and shared. ... According to Napster's leading attorney David Boies, "the law [Audio Home Recording Act of 1992] does not distinguish between large-scale and small-scale sharing or lending"(Taro-3). ... But it's not the copyright law that is the issue betwee...

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When there is an exchange of goods the laws of supply and demand almost always regulate the transaction. ... No supply exists because digital files can be copied and distributed an unlimited amount of times. ... Because MP3s are often pirated copies of music protected by copyright law, the music industry is filing lawsuits against the P2P software companies. ... By doing this, music fans were offering both non-copyrighted and copyrighted music free of charge. At this point the popularity of MP3s "and the legal problems associated with trading copyrighted material "skyrocketed. ...

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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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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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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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Numerous record labels quickly filed suits claiming Napster file sharing violates the copyright laws of their intellectual property. ... In an attempt to further expand their case, a press release by the RIAA declared that the number of burned CD's worldwide is proximate to the number of CD's sold through retail on the condition that just half of the blank discs sold in 2001 were used to copy music (qtd. in Boucher). Having read this information, "you"d have to assume... that if it weren't for personally copied music, CD sales would be double, and with the copying they should h...

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