Jolly Phan
Cal State University of San
Marcos
Professor Fang Fang
IS News 11/12/2009
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They represents the U.S. recording industry
Their mission is to foster a business and legal
climate that supports and promotes their members'
creative and financial vitality the record companies
that create, manufacture and/or distribute some 85
percent of all legitimate sound recordings
produced and sold in the United States
They protect intellectual property rights
worldwide and the First Amendment rights of
artists; conducts consumer, industry and technical
research; and monitors and reviews state and
federal laws, regulations and policies
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EMI
Sony Music
Entertainment
Universal Music
Group
Warner Music Group
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Silver: 100,000
Gold: 500,000
Platinum: 1,000,000
Multi-Platinum:
2,000,000+ (recertified
at each million-unit
interval)
Diamond: 10,000,000
anti-piracy efforts is to protect the ability of the
recording industry to invest in new bands and
new music and, in the digital space, to give
legal online services a chance to flourish.
Piracy-When you go online and download songs
without permission, you are stealing. “illegal
downloading of music”
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Music theft can take various forms: individuals
who illegally upload or download music online,
online companies who build businesses based on
theft and encourage users to break the law, or
criminals manufacturing mass numbers of
counterfeit CDs for sale on street corners, in flea
markets or at retail stores.
Music theft has hurt the music community, with
thousands of layoffs, songwriters out of work and
new artists having a harder time getting signed
and breaking into the business, taking on the many
artists, songwriters, musicians, record label
employees and others
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Institute for Policy Innovation concluded that
global music piracy causes:
$12.5 billion of economic losses every year
71,060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in
workers' earnings
loss of $422 million in tax revenues
$291 million in personal income tax
$131 million in lost corporate income and
production taxes.
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Proposed network
filters that search for
copyright violations
Proposed to put
spyware on users on
computers
Monitor their
networks for illegal
file sharing by its
customers.
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The way this will work is that the RIAA will alert
an ISP that a customer appears to be file sharing.
The ISP will then notify the person that he or she
appears to be file sharing.
If the behavior by the customer doesn't change,
then more e-mails will be sent.
If the customer ignores these e-mails, then the ISP
may choose to suspend the person's service.
If all else fails, they can choose to discontinue
service.
Your Computers will be spying on you
 ISP is monitoring you
Therefore breaking the right to Privacy and
Security and Internet Uses
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How is downloading music different from
copying a personal CD?
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Criminal penalties for first-time offenders can
be as high as five years in prison and $250,000
in fines.
Civil penalties can run into many thousands of
dollars in damages and legal fees. The
minimum penalty is $750 per song.
RIAA Homepage:
http://www.riaa.com
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CNET Tech News:
http://news.cnet.com/
CNN Technology News:
http://www.cnn.com/Tech/