Piracy and P2P File Sharing
Piracy as everybody knows is a crime and is most common online with the array of movies, music and software easily availible to download and share. P2P or peer to peer file sharing is the most common form of piracy today as this is simply sending a file either through an instant messenger or posting songs on torrent websites and even blogs which can have the file sources found and downloaded. Although this is so easy to do and performed millions of times each day, this is still piracy as it counts as theft. According to www.tgdaily.com Jammie Thomas was fined $222,000 for 24 songs she had file shared. That’s a huge fine of $9,250 per song! So with some authorities putting their feet down on the file sharing phenominom that is todays’ world; wouldn’t you think that with the risks being so high that people would stop? As nice as the idea may be, unforntunatly not. Even one of the major torrent websites got caight in April in 2009. The Pirate Bay’s co-founders all recieved a one year prision sentence as well as a $3.4 million fine. Did the website even close down though? No. Even today the site has over 4 million registered users and more than 2 million torrents that are all free to download. In my own personal opinion, people will do anything and take any risks to save money and effort when it comes to getting songs and films from the ‘net. So unless the Police use technology to find every single person guilty of online piracy; I see no abrupt end anytime soon.
Is it really about saving money?
Some tracks are just 29p, which hardly feels excessive.
Isn’t it more about a culture which is just used to things being free online, and for them any pay wall attempts is counter to that.