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Cyber Laws
Two decades ago there was not really any cyber law. Today, we can not pick up a newspaper without reading something about legal issues involving the Internet, or companies doing business there. The music industry and the movie has been troubled by piracy, copyright infringement and intellectual property theft. And they have every right to be, but are taking it lying down.
In fact, we now see that many of the cyber laws in the books are there because the film industry and the disc has sent its lobbyists to Washington DC to get laws passed to prevent this theft. Did it work? Yes and no, piracy still exists, and it is doubtful if anything can be stopped. The European Union has come out with a new law to protect companies from people without paying for downloading movies and songs.
Software companies are also being conned, not just in places like China, where hopefully, a lot of things happening in the United States, and the Internet is worldwide, across the digital divide. Sometimes people can not afford to songs or movies for download from a website that has pirated songs and movies, and then there are the people who build web sites that distribute this material to find a way to get a hold of it usually legally.
Recently there was a very interesting article on cyber law and one of the major problems in the Wall Street Journal. The article was entitled "Warner Bros. Online Potter leak probe" by Loren AE Schuke published November 24, 2010.
It turns out that Warner Bros had its latest Harry Potter film won a total of four days of the head of his debut in accordance with Article. Although the entire film was not available, the first 36 min. were, and people that love to play with the file-sharing were able to get for free. Now, I would like to express my opinion on this subject - and then some questions, philosophically, of course.
If the movie companies can not get a return on their investment because their films and movies are stolen and given away for free, then you are less likely to spend big budgets on big films in the future, because be able to make a profit. In fact, this creates an enormous risk in the market, and the reward is not there, if the only work being stolen.
This is a loss not only for the countries in the United States, but also as Brazil and India, who are also making movies, along with China. How to protect their film industries, as they will have the same problems as we do here. How much is at stake - hundreds of billions of dollars per year. This is particularly gross domestic product of at least 300 of the world's nations - stolen in cyberspace.
Although we have laws in the U.S., EU and other countries is doubtful that the cyber law alone can stop this problem. It appears that cyberlaw is only keep the honest people, and criminals are moving too fast to stop, even with the recent recoveries name domain by the authorities. Please consider this.
