Friday 9 November 2007

Piracy: Good Copy or Bad Copy

As the traditional talks aphorism in China,

"The innovation is a sword with double blades."

which means the innovation always has its good dide and bad side.

In this lecture which is about The Commercialization of the Network, the commercial web appeared in our sight. As a new style business based on internet, it has its shortcoming needs a standard or ruler to limite. Piracy and file share bacomes to the most important appendant of it.

According to the internet technological developmentg and support, the speed up of the internet service, download becomes to be one important part in people's daily cunsumption. people search and download all the resource as they need from internet with pay or free. none of them thinks about the Intellectual Property and the influences to the producer and publisher. The process of download is a process of robe, which is a crime.

Especially in the record and film area, the destroy from piracy is deathful. The MP3 and movie download will decrease the sales of disc and box office income of film. It leads to the income is much lower than budget, even lower than the costs. As a result, some producer will close down for owes. So the download of music and movie threaten the related industries' development badly. It should be limited with a effective law.

In this video, some people are making their inventation of music in a remix way. This way is based on others' product, only make some change or edit, then use them as a new original music in commercial use.

The real way of inventation is based on original resource or thoughts, not from others' work. Their way is a simple change or edit on others' work with a copy, it's a kind of piracy which is a crime. Even worse that they spread it in public activities with commercial purpose.

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