Copy Locally, Share Globally

Copy Locally, Share Globally

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Copy Locally, Share Globally: A Survey of P2P Litigation around the World and the Effect on the Technology Behind Unauthorized File Sharing
Alan C Chen. Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal. Clifton: Sep 2007. Vol. 19, Iss. 9; pg. 1, 4 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
The advent of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology (P2P) has made it easy for people to freely distribute, download, and copy audio and videos in digital format anywhere in the world. While the original concept behind P2P was to empower peers within a network of computers to share resources, the rise of many P2P services such as Napster and Grokster and the dramatic decline in music and video sales have prompted the recording industry to take aggressive legal actions on a global scale to curtail unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials. Because of rapid evolutions in computer technology there is no one technology that has an absolute and clear advantage in securing or overcoming unauthorized file-sharing activities. Players on either side of the P2P file-sharing debate can and will continue to create countermeasures against each other, as the recording industry's repeated triumph in courtrooms around the world has not translated into a full abatement of unauthorized copying activities on P2P networks.

Copyright Aspen Publishers, Inc. Sep 2007
The advent of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology (P2P) has made it easy for people to freely distribute, download, and copy audio and videos in digital format anywhere in the world. While the original concept behind P2P was to empower peers within a network of computers to share resources, the rise of many P2P services such as Napster and Grokster and the dramatic decline in music and video sales have prompted the recording industry to take aggressive legal actions on a global scale to curtail unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials.
Traditionally, the recording industry only targets P2P services and Internet service providers...

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