Copyright Blog

One thing about the presentation that interested me was the part about music file sharing. I am not a huge supporter of downloading music even though I've done it myself in the past but I also think that Cd's are grossly overpriced. I think there has to be a compromise somewhere and I guess a lot of the legal downloading sites are trying to find the median.
In the presentation on copyright, Ms. Graves brought up the point that law officials are targeting colleges when looking for illegal downloaders. From their point of view, they are trying to catch criminals and they see nothing wrong with their tactics. It is ways to target colleges because of the amount of people on a single network. They can look through the IP addresses attached to the school easily. They find the accessibility to college students a convenience and they believe they are merely taking advantage of this. On the other hand, however, one could say that even though targeting college campuses is the easy way to catch some downloaders, it is not right to target one group of people to punish for a crime all sorts of people commit. College campuses only download about 4% of the total amount of files downloaded per year therefore these people would say that the government is focusing too much on campuses. They would say that the other offenders should be searched out as well. I agree with the latter argument. i think it is unfair to target one group of people for a crime many groups commit.