Digitial piracy is the downloading, copying or re-production, in part in full, of any copyrighted material you do not own the copyright for or have express permission for by the copyright owner. this includes films, music, games, programme software and animations.
Digitial piracy has become a problem for many companies as there are downloads available for so many productions, this in turn has led to substantial loses for the work produced. as a lot of this work is expensive to make companies may not be able to fund their work, if ilegal downloading continues.
Downloading has already had a significant impactin the media industry, this can be seen by looking at music companies which have suffered a lot because of downloading. In the UK there are now only two companies of music superstores. the companies that own musical copyrights have tried to combat this by making legal downloads of their music, available for certain prices, however the creation of the software costs money, and the fact that free downloads are available, means that loses are still being made.
The gouvernment has also tried to combat this in their own way by making it so that copyright owners can recieve the names and details of people who seriously break copyright laws and internet service providers are able to suspend the accounts of these people. However despite this digital piracy remains a problem and if downloading is not stopped the media industry could be in serious trouble.
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