Essays on Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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WHY NAPSTER WAS UNETHICAL? 2 Napster which functioned from June 1999 to July 2001 was a free Internet software program which facilitated ground-breaking and influential means for peer-to-peer file sharing, characteristically music files, which were in MP3 format. According to Ryan O'Donnell’s podcast, “The story behind Napster”, on Youtube (2013) Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker co-founded Napster. The technology behind this software allowed people to duplicate, collect, and pass on MP3 files with other members through a user-friendly interface. Napster had about eighty million registered users. With a and password any member of Napster was able to ...

The issue of privacy of persons has become a common point of argument in many countries. Several people incessantly complain that social network sites have scrapped all the privacy of individuals. However, the latest area of concern is privacy of internet users. Currently, due to the rising cases of insecurity and threats of terrorism, most governments have initiated modalities through which peoples information can be shared through various organizations inclusive of governmental security offices. To top it off, video camera surveillance systems have been fitted in residential houses of individuals, workplaces, and all other public places such as social places. ...

Regulation Problems

The Berne Convention; Since long ago Intellectuals believed that people should control their creations and inventions, since they are the creators of those properties. In the year 1787 America included her support for copyright in the constitution in, Article 1; Section 8, Clause 8” Which states that, “congress has the mandate to promote the science and useful arts by securing author’s and Inventor’s exclusive rights to their writings and discoveries for a limited period of time”( SPINELLO,2009,pg 31). By that time countries such as Germany, France and Britain had already began copyrighting properties for their ...

Research Paper

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, often referred to as DCMA was created in the year 1998 as an amendment of the Copyright Act of 1976. The main aim of this act is to protect the unauthorized usage as well as the production of services, devices or technology, mainly intended to bypass the Digital Rights Managing. It is also meant to restrict any form of evasion that the person may intend to make any infringement of the copyright protection. The act has been divided into five crucial parts; TITLE I deals with the implementation of the World Intellectual Property Organization ( ...