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Overstatement of entertainment industry view

Overstatement of entertainment industry view

Posted Apr 23, 2005 17:35 UTC (Sat) by EmJay (guest, #29504)
In reply to: Overstatement of entertainment industry view by giraffedata
Parent article: The legality of file sharing services

I am in the process of doing a report for my Eng. 4 class on this topic, and it seems to me that, after scowering through countless webpages and magazine articles, it is a foggy mess, where fault is hard to place on any one group. It does not lie with file-sharing companies, so says the Supreme Court. It certainly doesn't lie with the user downloading the content via the P2P servers, as they were not those who pirated the CD or movie in the first place, merely those who benefited from it. It seems, then, that the most responsiblity must fall with those who originally pirated the music, movies, or games, then made them available via the software. Perhaps someone else can enlighten me if I am wrong. Anyone?


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