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Recently, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reportedly reached a settlement with 50 Ohio University students that asked them to pay $3,000 each to avoid Internet piracy lawsuits. As part of its ongoing copyright crackdown, the RIAA has already sued about 18,000 computer users nationwide since September 2003. The figure includes 1,062 computer users at 130 universities. Currently, UNH students are receiving similar letters from the RIAA, in advance of legal action.
The UK government is planning ban people from the Internet if they are found guilty of online copyright theft in the battle against online piracy and will cut anyones Internet access who repeatedly download files illegally.
This would turn ISPs like BT and AOL into a pro/active police force who would be forced to monitor traffic on the net in order to look out for any copyright infringements.
This legislation would mean the UK would have the most strict and prohibitive anti piracy laws in the world. France already leads the way in this approach to combat this problem.
The who frequently download files will be notified. If they ignore two warnings they will have their accounts suspended or/and closed.
In 2007 Global music sales were down 10 percent and tens of billions of illegal tracks were swapped in the year.
People using the dozens of file sharing tools like U-Torrent and BitTorrent will be easy to detect as these programs use specific Internet ports. ISPs already monitor these sites shaping the flow of information and prioritizing data.
Where to look is not the real problem but knowing what exactly to look for is. Eah day many terabytes of data will be shared over the net using file-sharing tools. Individual packets of info will be inspected.
Many people are encrypting files they send over P2P networks which make it very hard to know exactly what files they are sharing.
Internet service providers are not keen on this idea for obvious financial and legal reasons.
There are around 30 illegal music downloads for every legal track which is sold.
The scale of copyright theft is huge and getting bigger each day. dozens of programs like torrentz and WiMX allow users to download thousands of movies, TV programs, albums, game's, software.
Will it signal a new trend in the way people pay, or is it just wholesale theft that should to be stamped out user by user? Here are 100% Legal Downloads
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ohohdon
Even the most super techie in the whole would will never stop illegal downloads but the figures certainly can, and will be reduced. im just glad im not in charge of the legal proceedings!
I have very little knowledge of online copyright theft, but it appears to be a Herculean task to police it. In a way it seems a little like the demise of the "Big Band" era. Disc jockeys began playing music at parties and events where "big bands" used to perform "live," putting lots of musicians out of work.
I agree with you, it is going to be a monumental task controlling it. They are just trying to bully people I think. The customers make them so much money, it will be foolish for them to ban.
William.good point.
It's a minefield of problems and politics trying to enforce some kind of new legislation other than scare tactics..
cgull8m..yes, the ISPs would not be very happy closing down the millions of peoples accounts who download music illegally......
music? I can go to a site right now and watch a movie thats hitting theatres next week. The problem is beyond just the theft of music, peanuts if you ask me.. movies are far more expensive and yet you no longer really have to download anything, all these sites in japan are offering these movies and what not free and easily, no hoops just w ww. (&^*(&. com and your watching it.
Ironically I discovered this little known secret (but huge industry as their are literally thousands of sites like this) from a hub page I read called "how to watch (movie title) free..
They wont stop it, its like the holes in the dam on the cartoons, plug one hole and another one sprouts up.. the best their going to be able to do is try to trace the clients and use isp's to "warn" their users to scare them but actually doing it.. thats another story.. I really love that new clip they put on movies now the antipiracy rockn roll clip, anyone seen it? I wonder who they thought that would affect.. whats even funnier is the hackers decided to add it to the pirated movies themselves.. talk about funny.. but they are making a point..
Great hub, kudos my friend.. Kudos (really liked that scull key.. nice find)
Jerrico..I have not seen that anti-piracy clip but your right , this is a situation that cannot be policed..If this were the case every paedophile and terrorist who use the Internet to share images, data,and information would have been caught ages ago and if they spent more time worrying about those issues than worrying about these musicians and actors etc who have more money than would ever need then i would be a much happier person...
If musicians were worried that much then go and do some more live tours and make a few more million!!
Thanks for your comments and Kudos right backatchya;)
I took a class in the business of music and was astonished to find out that most musicians even popular ones (their are many exceptions however) don't really make all that much money. Thing is they get into a contract with a record company and are usually paid around 50 grand to produce a hit CD. they are charged for every service that they need to use such as recording studio time, music videos and all inclusive fees (cars, actors etc..).. it all goes on a bill that they have to recoup with record sales.
The reality of the matter is just about any of what I call the 5 year plans, as most artists last only 5 years before they fade away and new ones come in and replace them usually due to funding issues.. realize the expense to making a record (I use the term loosely as CD mp3 etc..) is phenominal and if they don't sell millions of records they end up bankrupt and OWING the record company money.
The catch 22 is the record company often owns their work and contines to sell it for money the artist doesn't get. When the artist goes into debt and cannot recoup the costs to the label they sue them and often the artist gets out of the contract by signing away their rights to all music production royalties, and at that time the label goes out and spends millions to get it out there again and makes money from it.
The artist is more often than not ripped off and broke within 5 years. The ones that make it big stay that way (jennifer lopezes story for example) because they invest in other ventures with the money they do make, this grows their capitol and thus their marketing power and to be honest I believe they deserve every penny they make even if its several life times worth of cash, the truth is they earn is very much so..
(brittany spears is another, regardless of her "breakdown" she invested just like lopez and if you watch those shows that show all their "assets" you'll see that the ones who make it always have more than just a music career, they have investments.. ll cool jay once said this was the secret to making it "in this business"
when people pirate the music to me their doing the artist a favor, not new artists though or budding artists but those who got jacked by their label.
Theirs a book called "Everything you could ever want to know about the music business" that describes the way the labels work.. its an eyeopener..
Jerrico
Jerrico, Thanks for the general lowdown..I was quite harsh on musicians putting them all in the same boat without realising there are many young poor struggling singers and bands that are only making ends meat with sales and would do much better financial if illegal downloads were stopped..
I won't argue with you as i see music is your business and i will be waiting with anticipation to see what laws are introduced and how they will be implemented. and how the future of the music industry as evolves ..
thanks for your contribution to this artiucle.
wow that is a bit ridiculous
getting free music is questionable to ones morals but it can be advantageous to the artist.
Take up and coming artist Drake his mixtape So Far Gone is free
and in doing this it has helped launch a huge buzz and hype for his first studio album
ohohdon says:
2 years ago
I'm not a real "techie" type and don't understand how it all works. My question is, how would they police people who go out and get a different provider? Or, couldn't they just go out and use an internet cafe or other hot spot?