Blog 11 - Final Blog

  For my final blog post I just wanted to say that I have learned so much about online piracy and the implications to it. My group members have been helpful and professional throughout the whole semester. The one big thing about online piracy that I have learned is that file sharing will not stop as time goes on, no matter how big the restrictions and penalties get. We need to learn to live and grow with file sharing. Yes it does take away from peoples work, but at the same time the people who have there files being shared can make a profit with what they have made in other ways. Eg. concerts for musicians. After learning the information from what my other group members made, it was clear to me that my generation gets most of their knowledge from file sharing. If it’s from the classroom, to viewing articles, books, and movies it all seems to be just one click away. Also I learned how easy it was to get information online. Sure it is illegal but at the same time it is so simple and easy to get and everyone does it. The government can only pick certain people, who generally have no idea what they are doing with downloading half the time and end being made an example. EG. making a Minnesota mom pay 1.4 million dollars for 24 illegal song downloads. Duncan in my group also post interesting articles that have to do with online piracy laws in the United States, which I found very interesting. They showed how harsh the penalties were in the United States compared to Canada. Eric made some good points on the actual big name file sharing websites, like KIM.com and Megaupload who made millions of dollars via online sharing. In conclusion I have learned many new things about online piracy and have felt my groups articles and blog posts helped me stay up to date with recent events dealing with online piracy.