Copyright Infringement

Jason Hardin talked to us about Copyright laws. I really found it interesting that Trinity University is bound by the law to give out personal information to the companies that detect IP addresses that are illegally downloading. Trinity has to give the person’s name and address if they catch you downloading their content illegally. Industries such as the MPP and RIAA can come after a student. They can ask for a lot more money than what the illegal downloads is worth. Since students tend to download more content than others, the HEOA requires the university to provide websites where legal downloading can take place. These websites will help with some of the downloading, but a lot of the content being downloaded by students must be paid for or illegally downloaded from programs such as Napster, Limewire, and Bittorrent. People in the music industry go after people for more money than the content is worth because they feel that by it being downloaded, there music has spread illegally, and they are getting ripped off. I feel that the music industry should not be able to claim more money than the amount illegally downloaded. The music industry is being greedy in asking for more.


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