[citw150] Re: CITW 150 L3 Q5

I agree that peer- to- peer are a good thing, but most people don't know what a 
moderate level would be.  I know these stars are riding in limos and have big 
house.
  But the songs they make and sell is what gives them those things.  I loved 
Napster,  but I knew I was stealing. And program sharing - I would not feel 
sorry for Mr Gates for one second.  But he does employ alot of people.  If we 
rewrite the laws to allow it then alot of artist, singers, and programmers may 
be out of work.  As it is now most people don't get caught in moderation so it 
is maybe better to leave it alone.
   
  You Wait almost as long as I do to do this homework.

Alex <alex33594@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
      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, copyrig ht law is br
 oken.
 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.


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