Napster

The article is mainly talking about the increase of pirating in music over the next couple of years it talks about how companies used to target big sites for pirating but now are planning to go to the personal level. Recent court rulings though might just change that allowing recording companies to get names address and other information from your internet service providers if you are suspected of pirating and sharing DVDs, CDs and songs. The article talks about a man who has pirated over six hundred songs about 60 CDs worth of music considered an average collection most likely meaning to tell us that it is a big deal to go after people and not just the sites. The article then goes on to talk about super users which are people who own a good piece of the music in the pirating world. These are ten percent of pirates owning ninety percent of the music this slice of people are our super users taking them down would greatly cut the size of the pirating industry. The article also tells us that internet service providers don’t really plan to sue but just send warning messages, but to very large and repeat offenders, consequences may be more severe. It goes to talk about how if teens do it their parents may be liable. The article goes on about robots that can survey sites and about some minor accidents from these robots. People should get in trouble for this because it is a direct copyright infringement they should not because it is the sites that are giving people access to the free media somebody might not no it’s wrong. I use iTunes to get my music or I use Pandora to listen to free music radio. No I want to be aid for the songs I make this no different from braking into my house and stealing something. Photo shoots endorsements and licensing for some brands some are even making their own brands. Pirating is bad and should be stopped. It is on the rise and is becoming a greater problem.

A particularly large name on the Rollingstones website is Jammie Thomas Rasset she is a Minnesota mother being fined a very large sum of money because of illegal downloading. She says it was probably her kids or Ex-boyfriend who downloaded it but she is taking the blame. Originally fined 1.92 million dollars for only twenty four illegally downloaded songs. She has gone to court to get her sentence reduced to 468’000 dollars lowered substantially .Being fined about 468’000 dollars she only has possession of 24 illegally downloaded songs she is being fined about 19’500 dollars per song. It is crazy the amount of money she is being forced to pay for only 24 songs she continually goes to court to get the charges removed for she says it is not her doing. Her and her lawyer are rejecting many proposals not accepting anything less than a cleared record and no fines. If there is someone in possession of say 600 like in the Napster article they are in some deep trouble with this one and are likely never going to be able to dig themselves out of that hole. Congress is working on passing a bill on internet piracy allowing the government to get court orders against sites that are hubs for illegal downloading and sharing. These sites would be shut down and IP addresses will be traced to their visitors. Yes it makes you easy to find having an IP address linked to that website if it is that easy for the government to track you I suspect  a very large drop in piracy actions.