Piracy is also a HUGE problem in community’s to local game shops local DVD shops and local cd shops as people download music movies and games off of the internet and this puts small businesses out of business and even some big businesses can lose all customers.
Copyright also is a problem but the counter measures are an even bigger risk to internet users Take SOPA for example SOPA stands for Stop.Online.Piracy.Act is a United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Provisions include the requesting of court orders to bar advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with infringing websites, and search engines from linking to the sites, and court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to the sites. The law would expand existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A similar bill in the U.S. Senate is titled the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
Copyright also is something that most people do every day without thinking about downloading movies is illegal but people still do it you would steal from a shop but the punishment for downloading is higher that stealing!!!!!!! So the moral is steal don’t download stuff ;)
