Internet Piracy | The Government Should Explore Ways of Making File Sharing Legal
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an advocacy organization that works to defend civil liberties and individual rights, primarily in cases where legal and technological issues intersect.
Summary: The controversy over online music sharing shows that the United States’ current system of copyrights laws—which makes it illegal to share music files via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks—is easily circumvented by modern technology. Rather than trying to force everyone, through lawsuits and other means, to conform to an outdated copyright system, the...
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