[citw150] CITW 150 L3 Q5

    I chose peer-to-peer file sharing as a societical issue to disucss. 
Personally I think that the copy-right law needs to be re-written to accomadate 
today's new technology, peer-to-peer file sharing. This technology allows 
anyone with an internet connection to share file they want to anyone else with 
an internet connection. Wether it's music, pictures, video, or even software, 
pretty much anything can be obtained using this new advance. This sounds great 
to the average person, but many people aren't happy and argue that this breaks 
copyright laws. I agree it does. If you download a whole CD for free, you are 
breaking the copyright law. I think we should ammend the old law and add the 
use of peer-to-peer at a moderate level. This is a necessary ammendmant because 
as we stand today, pretty much everyone enjoying music on the net are 
criminals. A quote from http://www.eff.org/share/ puts it pretty well: "It's 
time to face the fact that in today's world, copyright law is broke
 n. Our
 current copyright regime makes criminals out of music lovers. Worse, it makes 
suspected criminals out of all Internet users." I think peer-to-peer networks 
are a good thing in moderation and people abusing it should be punished.


#
          #
     Alex # Anders
        .-#-.
       (  #  )
       ) (#) (
       /  #  \
      (   #   )
       ` ___ '
                
---------------------------------
 
 What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos

Other related posts: