The article I found regarding copyright was on spin.com and was titled "Downloaders beware: Copyright alert system rises as torrents enter the cloud". This short article discusses the new "tiered alert system" that is going to be put into place for people that download illegal torrents. What I gathered from reading it is the big torrent sites found a way to use cloud storage to their advantage. By having the users store and access the cloud directly through their own randomly generated decryption key it allows the blame to fall into the downloaders hands and not the sites hands in regards to illegal distribution of copyright materials. With this new cloud storage in place the big internet providers (comcast, AT&T, Time Warner) are now going to use a warning system that consists of various levels. Basically it will start with a friendly warning and escalate to internet throttling to make your connection speed slower as a punishment for not heeding previous warnings.
In my opinion this solution to online copyright infringement is both good and bad. Good in the sense that the potential downloader is given plenty of opportunity to cease his illegal activities before possible judicial intervention, but also bad in that how do they know its really YOU that is downloading illegal movies, etc. I know plenty of people that leave their wireless internet unsecured and there is a good possibility someone with a laptop could take advantage of this and use the IP address of this unsecured connection to download whatever they please without a trace. Hopefully in the future a better system will be developed to help determine who is truly violating copyrights, and who is just too trusting with their wireless internet.
The copyright laws are just going to keep on getting more stupid because of the government being greedy with money. The corporate businesses are also another factor of the stupid copyright laws.
ReplyDeletei agree ,copyright laws can be deceiving sometimes.For example, even if you post an article by someone and mention where did you get it from and the name of the person who writes it you are still being considered as not following the law because you didn't take permission from the original writer to include his work on your page.
DeleteI think in the future there are the copyright system can help to prevent those who want to steal copyright and illegal downloading.
ReplyDeleteA problem with the way they want to do it is, they think people can't be fully trusted with how they use the internet. We just don't know what to do that would make everyone happy.
ReplyDeleteLook the corporations have gotten the big internet providers, whom also own or are owned by the production companies, to punish those who are illegally downloading content from torrents.
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