So back in the days of Frostwire, I used to wonder if any of the artists of the songs would earn anything from me just purchasing random songs. I think we all have experienced some sort of "free purchasing" online. Though Frostwire is a great open-source software, which allows it's users to download for free anything online, it also has many faults.. some of us may have experienced? My experience was porn, and lots of it! ARGH!
Frostwire, like many open-sourced software programmes can also allow for users to get confused on downloading the original copy of the item and may than download an edited item by another individual. Straight away this violates copyright of songs.. but does it really? As the song is free to download?
Boldrin and Levine (2007) argue that the music industry suggest that without intellectual property, there would be no new ideas created. This may be correct, as all artists need to be able to access songs to create new ones. But users of the site would also be able to violate the information supplied to them. Boldrin and Levine also question if the creators should have the right to control how purchasers make use of an idea or creation?
Boldrin and Levine's reading can be related to the group assignment, as my group is looking at the progression of cheating through time, mainly from offline to online. With this week subject being on digital content, I question is it okay for users on games to cheat? Does this infringe copyright in anyway, as the user is not playing the game in the intended way?
Yeah Its pretty annoying when you go to download something and its been labelled incorrectly, especially in the old day with dial up internet and you would wait for hours to download the wrong thing, i know this is stealing but its just so easy to do and has pretty much become the norm. I dont use any of those torrent sites mainly because i dont know really how to use them but i just get it all off my mate which i spose is just as bad.
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