Tyan Irina/Tues 5 6/The problem of piracy

"The problem" of piracy

Unlike the proprietary environment, digital is not just removes all physical limitations on copying, printing and distribution of digital objects, but also radically democratize this process in terms of production. The fact that in the industrial age in the proprietary environment was occupied by complex, difficult, to require resources, expertise and labor costs in the digital environment is almost imperceptible, or even automatically. To copy a file, you do not need any qualifications not the time not costs. Together with the deep penetration of computers in the lifestyle of modern man, and it forms a habit of behavior appropriate in the digital environment where copying, transmission and distribution of files and information is as natural as a joint listening to music, watching movies and sharing books with respect of copyright in the physical world. And this, in turn, gives rise to unauthorized copying and distribution, ie the creation and distribution of copies of works without the relevant national and international legislation permission from rights holders. With a light hand of representatives of the traditional content industry, such patterns of behavior of Internet users, who, in their opinion, is detrimental to the industry, it was generally accepted name of "piracy."

Outside the context of sea robbery, which is considered an international crime, the concept of "piracy" was first used by British publishers in the XIX century against the publishers of the US who practiced the publication of books by authors from the UK without permission or payment of royalties, with legally. Under US law, copyright 1790 copyright could belong exclusively to citizens of the United States.

 

The position of the legislators was totally conscious because American publishers opened access to "free as air" literature in English. Only in 1891 with the adoption of Chase foreign authors were also granted to copyright restrictions. It is noteworthy that changes in the law have been lobbied a group of publishers, who hoped thereby to obtain an advantage over another group of publishers insist on maintaining the status quo. However, the assignment of international law in the law Chase were made largely illusory, so the problems between the US and foreign publishers more or less remained in place until 1989, when the United States signed the Bern Convention. It should be noted that the legitimacy of "piracy" of American Publishers have been a real threat to the business of British publishers in the United States, as the conditions of such "unfair" competition foothold in the US market from UK publishers just could not.

At the moment with Internet piracy actively fighting, but the support of the people does not receive such a struggle. People think that paying for the internet and that's enough. Therefore, Internet piracy is actively supported by the users. What will happen in the future in the Internet piracy is not yet known, but I, as an active Internet user, and I do not see anything in it.