Section 5.2 Flashcards
People who are able to crack digital rights management.
Creaters
Creaters are able to create a copy by taking legit version to make the pirated version. Everyone looks up to them. True or False
True
Upload and Download different files.
Traders
Only take and never give back. These people are looked down upon
Leechers
“Information wants to be free”. They support this as long as you participate as much as everyone else.
True
Skis and Motza. 2 of the original 5 that are the most popular techniques of naturalization are
1.
2.
- Denial of Injury
2. Condemning the Condemners
Yes, I did the bad thing, but nobody got hurt and there is no victim. The only people losing out are rich executives. Or I pirated it, but I wouldn’t have paid money anyways so they aren’t losing out.
Denial of Injury
Yes I did it, but it is your fault I did it
Condemning the Condemners
Im going to pirate some songs but if I like them, I’m going to legally buy some of their CDs and go to their concerts. I will spend money on them later if I like them. This is known as what?
Sampling
Most people who pirate would not go in and steal a CD. True or False
True
The more available products are the less likely they are to be pirated. True or False
True
A bunch of countries come together in Switzerland and said let’s all agree to respect copyrights. Essentially if you have a copyright in one country it will be respected in all countries. In the 21st century they are still following this.
Berne Convention 1886
Works through the UN to police the intellectual property stuff and track illegal copyright violations and work with the UN to see how they can help the problem.
World Intellectual Property Organization
Violating the copyright of someone is a felony. If a certain amount it is a felony. This was determined based on what?
Copyright Act of 1976
If you copyright a certain amount it is a what?
Felony
Specific to digital piracy. What act?
No Electronic Theft Act of 1997
If you are caught being a pirate this is your punishment under the No Electronic Theft Act.
Five years and 250K
ISPs are protected, but only if they help. Internet Services Providers can be protected form being liable but only if they help track and catch customers who are violating the laws.
Internet Service Providers
Civil Suits: Recording Industry Association of America
United States
Civil Suit: Motion Picture Association of America
United States
Recoding Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America got together and what?
Started suing people
United States
Civil Suit:Federation Against Copyright Theft
UK
Civil Suit: Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft
Australian
Civil Suit: Indian Music Industry
Indian
All of the groups listed above are civil organizations and not government run. They are advocacy groups. Usually didn’t know who they were suing they just knew the IP address. Some people they sued were kids and they were seen as a bully and it upset a lot of people.
True
Take a file that looks like a pirated copy of a song or movie and it will have some flaw in it maybe even a virus. Put it on the Pirate Bay and BitTorrent and they end up with a bad file.
Poisoning Files
The Indian music Industry paid other companies to do a Distributed denial of service track against people who were on the Pirate Bay.
DDoS
