Transcript Document 7479671

Music piracy
Darcy Hayes & Ashleigh Dally
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What is music piracy
What are the consequences of music piracy
What is the punishment
How does it happen
Why does it happen
Reference
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What is music piracy
The dictionary states that music piracy is; the general term
referring to the illegal duplication and distribution of
sound recordings, comprised of four specific forms:
bootleg recordings, counterfeit recordings, pirate
recordings and online piracy.
The consequences
• The consequence of this is that music companies are
losing millions of dollars. they don’t just lose the
occasional single or album they lose there selling details
and even in some cases they don’t get a gold or
platinum credit for the song because people don’t buy it
they download it
The punishment
• If caught with illegal music that costs the record
compony a total of more than $350 then you are legally
viable to be sued or to even be arrested and detained
prison I a judge rules they can give you a maximum fine
of $5000 and imprisonment of up to 6 months
How does it happen
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Music piracy can occur many ways
Internet (downloading)
People give the song the bought to a friend
Illegal tape or analogue recordings
Digital recordings
Peer to peer link programs
Why does it happen
• Music piracy is being committed because people don’t
wont to pay for a legal copy when they can just
download it from websites and peer to peer connections.
Peer to peer
• Peer to peer links are a internet link from one persons
computer to a hosts computer. The people involved have
equal rights and you can only access someone's
computer if they decide to setup a shared folder to link
them to the network. The network has many faults
including that you can download a file from someone's
computer and it may contain a virus there are no ways of
checking a file until you download it.
References
• Google encyclopaedia
• wikipedia