Abolition of Legal Restrictions on Downloading Media from the Internet

Running head: ABOLITION OF LEGAL RESTRICTIONS ON DOWNLOADING MEDIA FROM THE INTERNET
Abolition of Legal Restrictions on Downloading Media from the Internet
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Introduction
The Internet is a rapid developing platform, which provides millions of services to
different people. The facilities provided by the internet is becoming popular and hence is
accessible to everyone. Music or video piracy is defined as the copying of the data and then
distributing the media on the public platform (Wang, Yeh and Liao 2013). With the advent of
the internet and other forms of digital media, the piracy has gained a new form. The newer
form of technology within the internet has made the process of piracy to be much more
complicated. The web-based users initiated the addition of different kinds of media files on
the internet platform. The potential risks related to the pirating of music had to be eliminated
(Appleyard 2015). The piracy of music and videos from the internet leads to copyright
infringement, which is a crime and thus it leads to huge losses for any company who
publishes their media on the internet. In order to restrict the illegal downloading of music and
videos from the internet, different government of different countries have made stringent
laws in order to restrict the piracy of these forms of online media.
Discussion
The protection of Intellectual Property has become a huge matter of concern in the
recent times (Bently and Sherman 2014). The holders of the copyright claim that the illegal
downloading of online media is a form of theft and thus the people who perform these kind of
activities should be severely punished. Illegal downloading of any form of media from the
internet leads to copyright infringement. It is defined as a form of practice of using those kind
of works, which are primarily protected by the laws of copyright (Cammaerts, Meng and
Mansell 2013).
With the growing use of the internet, many users have several forms of access to
materials that are protected by the laws of copyright. These media have become available on

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a wide basis and could be downloaded illegally with the help of peer-to-peer (P2P) programs
for sharing of files, applications and networks (Hamari, Sjoklint and Ukkonen 2016). The
enforcement of strict form of laws has brought the entire situation into control.
Although the piracy of music and videos from the internet is considered to illegal, yet
it has brought about some major issues for some of the users (Aguiar and Martens 2016). The
usage of internet and downloading information is not only limited to some basic users but
they also include students from schools and colleges from all over the world. The internet has
made an easy way for its users to exchange information, download several forms of media,
without the need to reach to a store in order to purchase a physical CD. Due to the recent
piracy related issues, which are affecting some of the owners of these media, the convenience
of downloading the online media is being affected. User need to pay a certain amount of
money in order to avail the facilities. One of the basic reasons for the piracy of music and
video is that consumers do not want to pay for the media, which could be downloaded for
free (Peukart, CLaussen and Kretschmer 2017). People often tend to enjoy such kind of
services, when the accessibility to use them is simplified. Legal restrictions on the
downloading of such kind of media could be the cause of a major issue for students. They
would need to access such kinds of media, which could be useful for their educational
purposes. Hence the legal restrictions on these kinds of media could be an issue for some of
them because many of the student cannot afford to pay for all kinds of media (DeNardis and
Hackl 2015).
The prohibition on the downloading of different forms of media would truncate the
access to people for downloading the free form of entertainment and educational purposes
(Dejean and Suire 2014). The legal based restrictions on the downloading of music and video
from the internet should not be considered as illegal. The artists and the concerned labels
have plenty of opportunity to make money as they perform concerts all over the world. As the