Week 11:The Ethics of Peer-to-Peer Filesharing

Lecture: Internet Stealing:

In this week’s lecture we talked about the ethical issues with the stealing that happens with internet and the access that everyone can have to any information. We mostly focused on the peer-to-peer file sharing. We watched a movie on the topic. The film called “steal this film 2” is about copyrighted products being distributed to the public and the action put in place by the society and more particularly the entertainment industry to stop piracy. It talks about the fact that they could never fully stop internet’s pirates and that there are more and more laws created to reinforce the internet’s products security.

Reading: ‘When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide’ by Demonbaby.

This week’s reading: ‘When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide’ is written by a blogger working in the entertainment industry. This blog talks about the excessive amount of money the big companies use and are wasting in food, alcohol and amusement. Then it talks about the creation of Napster and how the big industries took it as a threat to their business. The ability of peer-to-peer sharing of folder has been a real menace for these companies. It talks about the evolution of the consumer’s behavior towards the products and material online.