In Conclusion

I’d like to leave whoever is out there reading this with my final thoughts on what I’ve learned by writing this blog. Throughout my research online it seems that in terms of online piracy, it’s the people against the corporations and the government. And I believe this completely. In the last couple years several bills have attempted to be introduced into our law structure, and they have all failed miserably. Many influential sites protested them, and eventually they were all shelved. Many of these bills tried to invade our privacy by monitoring the Internet and having the option to control it. The internet is pretty much a lawless society, anything can end up on there and once it’s on, it’s there for good. How could they possibly think it would be controlled? So how would they stop Piracy? I mentioned in our class presentation that they only way to deal with piracy is to compete with it. Why are these organizations and government agents attempting to stop it altogether and spending more money then necessary. They should really just embrace it and come up with ways of competing, because piracy isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. So to wrap it up, until the government decides to become a totalitarian state, it’s pretty much up to you whether you download files illegally or not… Keep on rockin’ in the free world!