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Essay on The Effects of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing on
The Entertainment Industry
These days, the simple act of sharing music files with like-minded others can make you feel like a hunted criminal, never sure when the virtual bloodhounds of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) may track you down and drag you into court, demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. After all, it's happened to grandparents, 14-year-olds, college students, and just plain folks. Why can't it happen to you?
You may or may not agree with what the law says about sharing copyrighted files in essence, that it's illegal to share them with, or download them from, others. And I'm certainly not advocating that anyone should go out and break the law. But if you do decide to continue sharing files despite the potential legal problems, there are some things you can do to make it unlikely that the RIAA will target you. When it comes to file sharing, size matters. The RIAA sued only people who shared at least 1,000 songs. The RIAA sued only those who made their own files available to others, not those who only downloaded them. So, for example, if someone downloaded files, but didn't allow others to download from their collection, the RIAA left them alone. This means that you're safer if you don't share files on your system with other file sharers.
The concept of compulsory licenses, first proposed by Professor Lawrence Lessig as a solution to the peer-to-peer debate, has since been hailed by fair-use lobbyists as the savior of persecuted file-sharers, establishing a common ground with the major music labels and offering the possibility that both parties might, at last, be able to reach an agreement.
The idea in itself is simple users would pay a little more for Internet access, and their ISPs would forward this contribution as a flat-rate license......................
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