The world is evolving before our very eyes. Business models and the adaptation of the internet are evolving at a clip measurable in the way we measure dog years!
Particularly at the forefront of what is going on in the entertainment industry is having disastrous conflicts with some. Steal this Film addresses these very well and delves into the hotly contested debate over online file sharing and notion intellectual property in general.
China doesn't respect intellectual property at all. In the 1970s, they reverse engineered the design of the Boeing 707 and reproduced them. Theirs was named the Shanghai Y-10, and it never panned out as a commercial venture, but the point is there is no way Boeing could have obtained an injunction to prevent them from selling these planes on the market.
The laws of an individual country are impossible to enforce unilaterally and this creates a major ethical imbalance. You can be held liable for a difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for downloading a file in one jurisdiction over another (which may only be separated by a short distance too).
The fundamental design of the internet is designed to facilitate replicating digital information cheaply. So cheaply that the marginal cost of copying data on a computer and the internet is zero.
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