The New World of Criminal Activity

The Internet continues to grow with increasing accessibility, allowing individuals all over the world to access pirated material seamlessly. “In most Western countries copyright law has devolved into some kind of drooling, malignant beast. Copyright is meant to protect the creator of a work—be it a painting, book, video game, or movie—from being ripped off. But thanks to the force of lobbies, copyright law actually protects the interests of publishers and broadcasters. The recently shelved Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would have let a publisher demand that copyrighted works be removed from the Internet, was the creation of lobbies and associations, not individual artists.” (Sebastian 35) This problem is becoming more relevant as technology continues to increase. Copyright Piracy is a reoccurring American issue and a massive nation wide epidemic. Copyright Piracy is the use of material produced that is then shared freely throughout the World Wide Web, illegally, without consent of the producer. The reason copyright piracy has become such a prevalent issue is because of the ever evolving Internet. The ability to connect and share information between people all over the world has become effortlessly attainable. This issue has been brought up more recently ...

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