By Jason BushawayDigital Piracy

Definition Of Campaign.

A campaign is something that is used to raise awareness for something.

Types of campaigns

Persuasive. Charity. Public services. Educate people. Public safety. Raise awareness.

Definition Of “Digital Piracy”

The illegal trade in software, videos, digital video devices (DVDs), and music. Piracy occurs when someone other than the copyright holder copies the product and resells it for a fraction of the cost that the legitimate producer charges.

Definition Of “Copyright”

Copyright is a legal concept, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to control its distribution for a certain time period.

Definition Of “Intellectual property.

A right that is had by a person or by a company to have exclusive rights to use its own plans, ideas, or other intangible assets without the worry of competition, at least for a specific period of time. These rights can include copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.

Definition of “File Sharing”

File sharing is the public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network with various levels of access privilege. While files can easily be shared outside a network

What is meant by ‘illegal downloads’?

Illegal downloading is obtaining files that you do not have the right to use from the Internet.

Industries affected?

Music Industries Film industries Pharmaceuticals Construction Automobile Repair and

Maintenance Dry Cleaning Printing and Publishing Air Transportation

How people can watch films:

TV Internet Cinema Theatre Tablets Computer laptop

Legal or illegal?

Most of the ways such as Theatre and cinema and TV are all legal but ways on the computer or laptop or tablet can be illegal depending on how they go the film.. If its on something like Netflix then its LEGAL but if its downloaded without paying then its ILLEGAL.

Technologies Fault?

The graph shows that the amount of illegal downloads have increased since 2006 to 2010 and this could be due to better technology or people making it easier to download film or sending films to there friends that they downloaded illegally.

The chart shows things about people whether they haven't downloaded illegally EVER or do it occasionally or if the do it very often.

Teenagers

Teenagers probably “break the rules” by downloaded things illegally and sending them to there friend via email, Facebook or social networks etc.

Youtube Copyright termsEven though YouTube users are instructed to only upload content that belongs to them and that they have the right to use, copyrighted content is still uploaded thousands of times a day. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), YouTube

isn't responsible for the copyright violations of its users, provided the company removes that content when notified by the rights holders.

Concerned companies

Bad for the industry

The RIAA reports that music sales in the United States have dropped 47 percent since Napster first debuted in 1999. The availability of free music has cost the music industry $12.5 billion in economic losses.

Examples:

Problem among teens

I think illegal downloads IS a problem among teens as most teenagers download music illegally through phone/tablet apps or onto the computer through things such as YouTube converter.