Peer to Peer File Sharing:Online Pirates May Not Be the

Scallywags They’re Made Out to Be

Why People Are Okay with Piracy

• Internet morality is different• Entertainment industry is

viewed as evil• Content is too expensive• It’s viewed as a victimless crime• Laws should be changed• No fear of punishment• Piracy can’t be stopped anyway

Illegal downloading was judged to be most wrong when artists were described as receiving the profits and least wrong when the industry was described as doing so.

Nearly all participants (95%) believed that music should cost at least something. While college students are concerned about the unfair price the industry charges for music, they also seem to see the merits of paying for goods received.

Co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Professor Yochai Benkler

Alex Coxthe film maker best known for Repo Man or Sid and Nancy

Janis Ian 1975 Grammy award-winning singer

Co-founder of The Pirate Bay

Fredrik Neji

http://thepiratebay.se/blog/212

What some bittorrent sites have going for them:

http://www.blackout4hungary.net/

http://itsdanbull.com/single/

http://www.monstercat.net/

http://www.georgebarnett.co.uk/

http://image.bayimg.com/manogaadh.jpg

Ed O’Brien of Radiohead Nick Mason of Pink Floyd Shakira

VS

Lily Allen James Blunt Elton John

FAC says it would like1) Artists to receive fair compensation 2) And have copyright of their own material while record companies should have license3) Current copyright owners should have a “use it or lose it” policy (they shouldn’t be able to hold material hostage)4)The rights of performers should be equal to the rights of authors.

http://www.janisian.com/reading/internet.php

What’s so bad about the entertainment industry?

http://www.janisian.com/reading/internet.php