Increasing piracy
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Enablers
1. State of the technology: peer to peer sharing, do not need to buy software of music, just download it from someone that put his softare online via peer to peer sharing. Technological developments have made it cheaper and easier to make copies of information. Printing was a great advance: it eliminated the need for hand copying of documents. Photocopying and computers have made it even easier to make copies of written documents. Photography and sound recordings have done the same for visual and audio material. The ability to protect intellectual property is being undermined by technology. Yet there is a strong push to expand the scope of ownership of information.
2. Inflation, decreasing economy:music becomes luxury,more and more expensive-> increasing temptation to piracy
3. Everyone is doing it, almost impossible to track down the pirates and punish them
4. Booming of the internet industry:[1]
5. Casey or Sandhya, smth about peoples need to share info
Inhibitors
1. Legacy systems and copyright laws
2. Awareness of the destuctiveness, losses and unfairness of piracy : if piracy continues to keep in this way, software or music or developers of any other art will not be motivated anymore to keep on doing their good work, because afterwords, their work is being "distributed" without their permission (=piracy), as if it is not their own work.
3. War against piracy : for example Software Piracy Protection from Microsoft (see references).
Paradigms
Increasing piracy means that the intellectual property of someone, the hard work of someone can be given free to others; this will leave the owner of the intellectual property (software, song, book etc.) unmotivated.
That is why; if piracy keeps increasing the excellent work of scientists, authors, singers and others will ultimately diminish. Those excellent people will get the feeling as if their work is not appreciated anymore, because they have no control over distributing it; it is distributed by piracy, without their permission. Thus, on the one hand piracy will change this world into a world with less good work, because the smart and talented people are not motivated anymore in distributing their knowledge or art. Also businesses may diminish because they will be not profitable anymore because of piracy.
On the other hand, increased piracy will lead into a world of increased knowledge and art sharing.
Timing
According to the writers of the article on[2] "The roots of software piracy may lie in the early 1960s, when computer programs were freely distributed with mainframe hardware by hardware manufacturers (e.g. AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, General Electric and General Motors)".
Although there is some protest and relucance for piracy now,piracy will still continue to grow; it will even grow faster, because it is now very easy due to the technology.
References
1. http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/~dstone/piracy.htm
2.http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,94364,00.html?from=story_picks
3. http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation_how.mspx
4. http://www.siia.net/piracy/
5. http://www.bsa.org/usa/antipiracy/