copywrong?
Friday, October 9, 2009 by Robz
In reference to the copyright lecture, two things jumped into my head about copyrighting and piracy. What actually counts as piracy? On iTunes you can purchase music videos for around three dollars, this gets 'synced' on to your ipod when you connect it to your laptop/computer. Basically your paying money for a video that you can play on a tiny inch big screen or on your computer. But does recording a music video from the television, such as C4, and keeping the recording count as piracy? Does analog distribution still count as piracy these days with digital now in the vast majority?
My other point, or rather observation is that anti-piracy campaigns have taken a different approaches in their campaign to promote legitimate purchasing of films. The old "Downloading is stealing" adverts are being replaced by ones that talk, (using famous celebrities) about the effect of movie piracy on people in the film industry. Another approach they are taking is using and that I have seen on DVD's is one less moralistic and more based on the convinience of the viewers. For this advert they compare people who watch purchased movies to those who download them. Here is a link to the site about the new Hollywood anti-piracy campaign.
While I do enjoy the more recent adverts more than the older ones, I think it's slightly worrying that they had to change them from the more black and white depiction of "downloading is wrong"
My other point, or rather observation is that anti-piracy campaigns have taken a different approaches in their campaign to promote legitimate purchasing of films. The old "Downloading is stealing" adverts are being replaced by ones that talk, (using famous celebrities) about the effect of movie piracy on people in the film industry. Another approach they are taking is using and that I have seen on DVD's is one less moralistic and more based on the convinience of the viewers. For this advert they compare people who watch purchased movies to those who download them. Here is a link to the site about the new Hollywood anti-piracy campaign.
While I do enjoy the more recent adverts more than the older ones, I think it's slightly worrying that they had to change them from the more black and white depiction of "downloading is wrong"