Copyright and Creative Commons

An issue that has recently caused some trouble for college students is file sharing to steal songs from the internet. Copyright means government recognition protecting someone’s intellectual property. Copyright infringement is a crime, and copyright is where you copy exactly someone else’s work. They can find anyone that is illegally file sharing by identifying their I.P. address. This individual code can trace anyone’s activity back to their computer that they did the file sharing on. These activities can result in lawsuits and could be very costly in the thousands of dollars. Yes, a lot of kids get away with file sharing and stealing songs off the interenet, but if you are summoned, it could potentially cost you thousands of dollars. The free songs that you get from the internet is not worth the risk. The main lesson from today is that if you do not pay for it, you cannot listen or watch it. It is very easy for the hackers to find your theft of songs, so it would be wise to not steal in the first place!


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