Sunday, July 6, 2008

A review on a post on Legal from My E-Commerce blog.



Have you been warned about sharing music online?Have you been received a legal letter for illegal downloading music and movie?
Its now very common for people to freely download video, music as well as the movie from the Internet, which sometimes seem like a file sharing centre. This piracy issue arise because people doesn’t have to pay anything for the downloaded multimedia information. According to the BBC news in UK, there is about 6 million people are said to illegally download file from the internet per year. This has caused the music and film companies lost millions of pounds in estimated. In order to solve this problem, there is some proposal that suggest internet service providers to take action over users who access pirated material via their accounts.
Youtube, one of the user most visited website for any video or music has been ask to hand over user info to Viacom (click for more infomation). This is actually a court order by the US Federak court.
Furthermore, the Allofmp3.com, which claimed to be second biggest seller of music downloads after iTunes have been closed down due to piracy issued. The fact is that the Viacom taking music that it had no right to reproduce and selling it worldwide.Therefore, the user who want to download freely from the internet should take note also to this rising issue-piracy.