Final project for Intro to Media Culture

1. DOWNLOADING IN
THE MOVIE AND
MUSIC INDUSTRY
By Matthew Gee

2. Definitions
• Piracy-The unauthorized use or reproduction
of copyrighted or patented material
• Copyright- Exclusive legal right to reproduce,
publish, sell, or distribute material and form
of something
• Counterfeit- imitation of product and its box
• Forgery- adapting the product with intent to
deceive
• Bootlegging- recording made of live
performances without performers consent
• Plagirism: copying of someone else’s work

3. Legal sources of downloading
• Pressplay
• Rhapsody
• Musicnet
• Apple Itunes- .99 cents per
song
• Napster- $12.95 per month
• Spotify

4. Copyright laws
• Stop Online Piracy Act
(SOPA)- stop online
trafficking in copyrighted
intellectual property and
counterfeit goods
• Protect IP act- protect the
property that you make, or
have rights to so that
others don’t steal it

5. Lost sales due to downloading
• Drop in cd sales, in 2000 era,
P2P (peer to peer) downloading
affected
• Statistics show loss of 70
thousand+ jobs in 2005 (How
Does Downloading Music Affect
the Economy)
• Tax revenues decreased
insurmountably

6. What is filesharing?
• Public or private sharing of
computer data, or space in a
network with various levels of
access privilege
• Allows people to use same file,
modify and print it

7. Views on piracy
• Piracy inescapable
• SOPA and IPA acts against
first amendment (Freedom
of Speech)
• Not actually lost sales, not
there to begin with

8. How Piracy Bills work
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-LGCR-0B00

9. Fines due to piracy
• Joel Tenenbaum (BU grad)
fined $675,000 for 30 song
downloads
• Jammie Thomas (single
mother of four) fined $2
million for 24 songs
downloaded

10. What are some illegal sources of downloading?
•Pirate Bay
•Bit Torrents
•Limewire
•Frostwire
•Mediafire

11. Statistics about piracy
• 42% worlds piracy rate
• Chinas 78%, USA 20%
• 58.8 billion estimated
value of all pirated
material
• US makes 16% of this

12. Why people pirate material?
• Money
• Quality
• How Easy it is

13. How much does Piracy affect the movie
industry?
• Expected piracy affects
movie industry up to $20.5
billion per year
• Not the whole economy
suffers from piracy, other
external and internal
factors

14. Works Cited Page
• Catone, Josh. "SitePoint » Learn CSS | HTML5 | JavaScript | Wordpress | Tutorials-Web Development | Reference | Books and More." Why People Pirate
Software. 15 Aug. 2008. Web. 29 Apr. 2012. <http://www.sitepoint.com/why -people-pirate-software/>.
• Komando, Kim. "Legal Music-downloading Sites." USA Today. Gannett, 25 Aug. 2003. Web. 19 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2003-08-25-komando_x.htm>.
• L, Thomas. "Online Piracy Is a Problem." The Right Sphere. 18 Jan. 2012. Web. 23 Apr. 2012. <http://www.therightsphere.com/20 12/01/online-piracy-is-a-
problem/>.
• "The Making, Selling and Distribution of - Illegal Copies of Movies / Music / Software / Fake & Counterfeit Merchandise." Copyr ight Infringement,
Piracy, Fake and Counterfeit Goods Reporting Center. Web. 19 Apr. 2012. <http://www.copynot.com />.
• McCarthy, Conor. "Seven Crimes to Consider Before Music Piracy." - Gapers Block Mechanics. 17 Aug. 2009. Web. 29 Apr. 2012.
<http://gapersblock.com/mechanics/2009/08/17/seven-crimes-to-consider-befor/>.
• McKay, Matt. "How Does Downloading Music Affect the Economy?" EHow. Demand Media, 14 Apr. 2010. Web. 19 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.ehow.com/about_6303543_downloading-music-affect-economy_.html>.
• Plumer, Brad. "SOPA: How Much Does Online Piracy Really Cost the Economy?" Washington Post. The Washington Post, 05 Jan. 2012. Web. 30 Apr.
2012. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/how-much-does-online-piracy-really-cost-the-
economy/2012/01/05/gIQAXknNdP_blog.html>.
• Schiesser, Tim. "Trivia Tuesday: Some Facts about Software Piracy." .net. 6 Mar. 2012. Web. 29 Apr. 2012. <http://www.neowin.net/news/trivia-tuesday-
some-facts-about-software-piracy>.
• Tassi, Paul. "You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 03 Feb. 2012. Web. 19 Apr. 201 2.
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