The 1976 Copyright Act provides that copyright protection against stealing. Copyright is the rights to copy a person’s original work. It is illegal to copy any work that you do not have the rights to share, copy or republish. There are many ways that people get some Films, music, programs etc. without paying for them by illegally downloading them from the internet by many of ways one of which is torrenting. The problems with copyright not stopping people illegally downloading music and films is that film producers and musicians don’t get the money that they deserve for the product that they are trying to sell. When people upload to YouTube copyrighted content it just gives them a warning so the content is distributed and people can then illegally download it using websites online. When breaching the terms of copyright it can lead to fines your website being shut down or jail for breaching it. Also copyright problems may occur when people make remix’s of songs but sometimes the producers just let it go. 95% of music downloads in 2009 was illegal downloading.Copyright protects everything to do with the document/object that it is labeled to. Copyright does not protect an idea, ideas have to be put into material objects first.
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