Copyright Issues

These days copyright issues is getting more and more serious due to the internet technology that make no matter in entertainment field or in other specs. People these days can watch what they wanna watch through internet without paying anything. Some of the most popular website that people usually uses it which are www.youtube.com, www.dailymotion.com, www.metacafe.com and etc. In these websites they can stream those movie without paying anything but those movie are actually being own by a particular company that does not want people to exposed it to let users to watch it for free because it is so unfair that other people have to pay to watch to program or listening to those music. Besides that its also unfair to those who work so hard in the process of those things such as VCD to help them to get their payoff for what they have done for their work. Download in the internet is easy, safe and people nowadays doesn't need to waste their time to come out and buy the thing they want and they can already get.

There are also some of the software that users can use to download all the video or songs that they have listen in no matter what website some of it are like REAL PLAYER and some of the video download-er(youtube downloader). These software or application will make the same thing that they get from the CD that they have bought in the shops which are original. These will make the buying power become weaker and weaker that make various people started choosing download illegally online. These uses these downloader to download the movie or song from youtube, dailymotion, ku6 and etc. Besides that downloading online can save their time to go on shopping and buy those CDs in the shopping complex in store.

Besides entertainment copyrights there are also some other copyrights that makes the person who makes people work easily is also affected. Such as Microsoft company who tries to make Microsoft Office to help users to complete their works easily. As the price was increased into a price that not everyone of the users could afford to buy it so some of the programmer cracked the Microsoft Office is then spread into full of piracy that everyone can just buy a disc or even borrow it from friends to just install with the keys included. This is very unfair to a company that tries to help people but the users are trying to use the facilities that supposedly not belong to them. As these application becoming more serious, Microsoft Office try to make new version so that more users will have to buy their application.

Users should understand the hard work of the workers who work more serious than we could have thought of. It doesn't mean that we can just take things that doesn't belong to us. We should support the idol that we like or the application the we used usually in a correct way so that it would not extinct in future. People should stop the growth of the privacy in the internet so that healthy information and program's presence in the cyber world would be safe for the users.

Credit: http://www.quality-web-programming.com/blog/legal-issues-and-copyright-infringement/, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx, http://fno.org/jun96/legal.html