Digital Piracy

On the demand side, digital consumption of media products is accompanied by the emergence of digital piracy. Replication was technically feasible in the video tape era, but it requires limited equipment and piracy (Waterman et al., 2007). However, with the rise of computers and the World Wide Web, illegal copying and storage of copyrighted content has been simplified, and illegal copying of movies has dramatically increased (Fetscherin, 2005). Digital piracy is usually done offline (copy of disk or file) and online (download and share files).

Reason - low copy and distribution costs, the quality of digital copies (usually the same as the quality of the original work), the availability of broadband technology has increased, and digital piracy (often called "digital piracy" ) New consumer devices for digital data (PC, netbook, MP3 player, e-book reader, digital video recorder etc.), source material available around the world, limited legal options, and latest software Many editor possibilities available 25

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In the digital environment, there is a similar outrageous shadow economy in the form of online piracy of the copyrighted work. Explaining the increase in copyright infringement as an unfortunate side effect of modern digital technology is attractive, but copyright infringement is as old as copyright itself. 3 However, in the recent general online piracy problem, the following questions are raised. There is no doubt that copyright infringement litigation is a matter of simply getting something without paying, but according to De Soto's survey, this kind of extraordinary solution is a property It is due to too little ownership. In the absence of existing ownership of too many off-the-shelf digital assets, law-abiding citizens rely on illegal copies to get what they want