By Matthew Gee

DOWNLOADING IN THE MOVIE AND MUSIC INDUSTRY

Definitions

• Piracy-The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material • Copyright- Exclusive legal right to reproduce,

publish, sell, or distribute material and form of something • Counterfeit- imitation of product and its box • Forgery- adapting the product with intent to

deceive • Bootlegging- recording made of live

performances without performers consent • Plagirism: copying of someone else’s work

Legal sources of downloading

• Pressplay• Rhapsody• Musicnet• Apple Itunes- .99 cents per song• Napster- $12.95 per month • Spotify

Copyright laws

• Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)- stop online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods• Protect IP act- protect the property that you make, or have rights to so that others don’t steal it

Lost sales due to downloading

• Drop in cd sales, in 2000 era, P2P (peer to peer) downloading affected• Statistics show loss of 70 thousand+ jobs in 2005 (How Does Downloading Music Affect the Economy)• Tax revenues decreased insurmountably

What is filesharing?

• Public or private sharing of computer data, or space in a network with various levels of access privilege • Allows people to use same file, modify and print it

Views on piracy

• Piracy inescapable• SOPA and IPA acts against first amendment (Freedom of Speech)• Not actually lost sales, not there to begin with

How Piracy Bills work • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-LGCR-0B00

Fines due to piracy

• Joel Tenenbaum (BU grad) fined $675,000 for 30 song downloads • Jammie Thomas (single mother of four) fined $2 million for 24 songs downloaded

What are some illegal sources of downloading?

•Pirate Bay •Bit Torrents •Limewire•Frostwire •Mediafire

Statistics about piracy

• 42% worlds piracy rate • Chinas 78%, USA 20%• 58.8 billion estimated value of all pirated material• US makes 16% of this

Why people pirate material?

• Money• Quality• How Easy it is

How much does Piracy affect the movie industry?

• Expected piracy affects movie industry up to $20.5 billion per year• Not the whole economy suffers from piracy, other external and internal factors

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