Today’s society is filled with secrets that were meant to be kept but if we want to keep things hidden or secured, we have to make sure that our business must be kept private and that is where privacy comes in to ensure our security from illegal threats especially piracy so that we could have more time for important things in our everyday lives.
Privacy is defined as the condition of being free from being observed by other people which means that we have the authority to do whatever we want as long as we have things secured. But the total opposite of privacy is piracy which is defined as the act of illegally copying someone’s product or invention without permission, this actually means that someone takes advantage of stealing our work to claim it as one’s own and that is not a very good sign indeed. So let’s see the difference between piracy and privacy so we could learn more about the two.
We already learned that piracy is illegal in the world but that doesn’t stop pirates from stealing all the works from movie companies so they could sell them to unsuspecting victims. According to Forbes.com’s article, “You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You”, Paul Tassi explained that “As technology continues to evolve, the battle between pirates and copyright holders is going to escalate, and pirates are always, always going to be one step ahead. To be clear, this is in no way meant to be a “pro-piracy” piece, it is merely attempting to show the inescapable realities of piracy that media companies refuse to acknowledge. What’s clear is that legislation is not the answer. 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 quote is a fact because pirates can use their tactical ways to copy movies so they could earn enough money to their own advantages but federal authorities raided their bases to arrest them and take away their evidence that would help put pirates behind bars.
Another perfect example was the 2014 film, The Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, that put North Korea in a lot of rages and because of that, hackers were able to leak the movie that would put Sony in so much trouble that in the Quartz.com article entitled, “Everything We Know About How People Watched “The Interview” and What It Means For The Future of Internet Video”, Zachary M. Seward mentioned about the downloads that “The two million legal downloads of The Interview in four days compared to 1.5 million illegal downloads of the film in two days. Sony has only made the film available in the US and Canada, so the rest of the world would have had to resort to piracy, which was aided by some loopholes left open by sites offering the movie”, which is a compelling case to the situation nowadays and not even the victims know about what is going on with the film back in 2014.
The last example is about the Pirate Bay shutdown that took place in Sweden back in 2009. As Timothy J. Seppala stated in his Engadget.com article, “The Pirate Bay Shutdown: The Whole Story (So Far), “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. We tried finding more recent information, but the official blog is offline too, and, even then, the outfit keeps current usage statistics incredibly close to its chest. The best we could come by was a graph showing an uptick in usage, sans any actual numbers to go with the jagged but rising, horizontal line. Because the site had to change domains a number of times before this last raid, in part to insulate itself from copyright laws, it’s hard to gauge just how popular The Pirate Bay was before last week’s shutdown. More information will likely surface in the coming weeks, as this latest raid is part of an ongoing investigation as well.” The quote itself made a strong point about piracy that it can destroy large companies, putting them out of business because of illegal downloading in the world. So that is where private security comes in so they could find, track down, and arrest the copyright pirates so that large companies could keep their work safe, secured, and private so no one will be able to hack into their database to steal their work once again.
So why are both privacy and piracy different? The answer is that they have purposes so that we could do what we want to do for our benefits. Piracy is strictly illegal to the world that if you download movies and television shows illegally, you could end up violating the copyright laws and that would put you to federal prison for years so it is very important for us to have security because it helps us feel safe but we have to make sure we have to keep our work private so we don’t have to end up like pirates in both the digital world and our society today. So, no piracy allowed, alright? Privacy= Good, Piracy= Bad.