Joseph Singh
MCS
Jonah Brucker Cohen
April 26, 2018
How is piracy hurting the case for copyright online?
Piracy, it’s a funny concept to me. For example piracy according to google means “the unauthorized use or reproduction of another’s work.” So when big named companies or YouTube for example uses out UGC and makes money off of it, isn’t that the same idea. I feel like we as a society of unprofessional superstars don’t get our recognition and money’s worth because of this.
With that being said I’d like to start off by saying piracy is already illegal in the United States, yet it still persist. Why is that? Maybe the penalty of piracy isn’t stern enough or maybe it is hard to catch the culprits, but it is a fact that this must be stopped.
On the other hand, I admit piracy may be a quick buck, and easy to do, but it is wrong. Imagine putting millions of dollars and Time and brain storming. After all that you release you content with the intentions of making money? You would be angry if someone was to make a profit out of your content with out your consent.
Now touching on the privacy aspect of the situation. Privacy in our day and age is hard to come by because how non private this generation is. when it comes to privacy and piracy, they don’t go hand in hand but they are related. I guess what I’m trying to say is with piracy comes an invasion of your privacy.
I can say the big Take away is that to combat piracy we must disipline the people who do this and with that being done privacy will finally fall back in its place and everything will be better. Make America Great Agian !
