Piracy

Piracy is a copyright infringement which is the use of others ones work without their permission. According to Paul Tassi in “You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You” he mentions “Piracy is already illegal in the US, and most places around the world, yet it persists underground, but more often in plain sight. Short of passing a law that allows the actual blacklisting of websites like China and Iran, there is no legislative solution.” this basically states that there are still ways that people can get away with others work without being caught. According to Timothy J. Seppala in The Pirate Bay shutdown: the whole story (so far) it speaks on how a well known website called “The Pirate Bay” was shut down due to containing copyrighted materials. “The Pirate Bay was the 97th most-visited website on the entire internet in 2008, according to Alexa data. During the 2009 trial that saw co-founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm charged with $3.6 million in fines, along with time behind bars for aiding in copyright infringement, it was reported that The Pirate Bay had some 22 million users — roughly the population of Texas.” sites like these costed many industries millions of dollars due to the fact that their material was given away for free in cases like these. As mentioned by Zachary M. Seward in “Everything we know about how people watched “The Interview” and what it means for the future of internet video” it talks about the film “the interview” because of the possible outcomes that we will be seeing in the future when it comes to videos on the internet.

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