How is piracy hurting the case for copyright online?

Piracy is a term used to elucidate on the illegal copying of licensed and copyrighted materials from the Internet.  In many ways it hurts the case for copyright online because a lot of the times it is very difficult to stop these piracy services even when they are stealing your content.  One of the main piracy sources that we have read about was called Pirate bay.  In the article written by  Timothy J. Seppala it is stated that ” “For the past decade, if you wanted to download copyrighted material and didn’t want to pay for it, it’s likely you turned to Pirate bay” to receive the content.  Founded in 2003 by Swedish think tank Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay allows visitors to search, download, and contribute magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing among users of the BitTorrent protocol.  this was a massive piracy company surrounded by conflict and legal issues that had been shut down multiple times.  There was some conflict because many argued that they were not the ones supplying the pirated content they were just the ones that led you to where to get to that pirated content.  With so much piracy on the internet today it creates a continuously growing problem for people and or companies who own copyrights.  I the article written by Paul Tassi You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You “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”.  Now, In my opinion as a consumer although I like free content as I am sure many people do but I also understand and acknowledge that this piracy is hurting the case for copyright online and is impossible to keep up with because a new piracy provider pops up everyday.  We also have to realize that we are stealing from those who own the content and that is how these people earn a living.  So yes I do believe piracy is hurting the case for copyright online.

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