A review on post on Legal from My E-Commerce blog

According to http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Legal, i am reviewing the post if "UK to get tough with illegal downloader". I notice that many people are like to download everything online either legally or illegally such as songs, movies, articles and journals, picures and so on. However, UK government is trying to against illegal downloaders by coming out a new law that can be cut off their internet connection. In UK, there are estimated around 6 million people are downloading files illegally. These illegal downloading of music and film are costing the industry to lose million of pounds in revenue every year. The contents of the new proposed law such as detail of customers suspected in illegal downloading can be made available to the courts.

In my opinion. Internet is the virtual world that we can perform many things through online but not everything is right to do. We don’t have any law specifically against the illegal downloaders. However, a new law been built in UK government is to be fairness, protect human being and copyright of the industry. The new law may reduce number of illegal downloaders and pirated material. Even the new law works, there still have the problem. It may not be eliminated as there are many ways to cover up the crime. The people like university students are willing to take risk to download the copyright materials because they are no need to spend a lot of money to buy th original copy for the materials.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a group which represent the recording industry distributors in the United States. The goal are:

• To protect intellectual property rights worldwide and the Firse Amendment Rights of artists;
• To perform research about the music industry;
• To monitor and review relevant laws, regualtions and policies.

According to ariticle form New University website, the best way to prevent a violation of copyright laws is by educating students about using peer-to-peer software programs correctly.The latest movement by the RIAA has sparked renewed concerns by UCI's (University of California, Irvine) Networking and Academic Computing Services over students' understanding of what is and isn't legal to download. Many students on campus as regular users of peer-to-peer file sharing programs, UCI has to remind its students about the issue of copyright protection.

Beside, the new approach is RIAA cooperate with individual Internet service providers. RIAA will ask ISP such as Verizon, Comcast, AOL or universities to issue warnings to their customers who are suspected of illegally downloading files to which they do not own the copyright. Warnings range from slower Internet service to verbal or e-mail warnings.

Lastly, there is no free lunch in reality; we must pay before we get anything. So, we need support the original copy of material and avoid download illegally and pirated materials.

Reference:

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7240234.stm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America
• http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/12798
• http://www.newu.uci.edu/main/article?slug=uci_takes_action_against120