There is a new
way to make use of the internet and one's computer: it is file sharing. File
sharing is the process of making digitally stored information available to
other users for use. As reminded by Choi, David Y, Perez, Arturo on their paper named
"Online piracy and the emergence of new business models " the
internet was originally created by the government to allow military and
scientists to share new development and new technology. But companies like
Microsoft have commercialized the software industry which turned file sharing
into something illegal. Originally, this was not the case. But as demonstrated by
the Napster case, file sharing now falls under copyright laws.
File sharing include P2P, peer to peer file sharing which
is the use of a software to research
other users who have open content and access their file whether it music,
movies, books etc.. The document comes in bits and pieces and is reorganized by
the person who downloaded the document. This is considered highly illegal and the United States
contrarily to the European countries strictly reinforces copyright reinforces copyright laws
and punishes piracy.
But people are resisting and moving to different places
and countries once their operations are cracked down as mentioned by Eric
Pfanner in his article "Should
Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" But, online piracy and file
sharing has contributed to great innovation and provided new business models as
the people working on creating them or
the people using them can provide groundbreaking information that can lead to
successful businesses.
Sources
- Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" by ERIC PFANNER, The New York Times, April 13, 2009, p. B4. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/technology/internet/13iht-piracy13.html
- Choi, David Y; Perez, Arturo. Online piracy and the emergence of new business models (Conference Paper). USASBE/SBI 2006 Joint Conference Proceedings. Tucson, AZ. ed. Toombs, Leslie A. 2006. http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/research/usasbe/2006/pdffiles/papers/cases/016.pdf
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