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  2. Music piracy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_piracy

    Music piracy. Music piracy is the copying and distributing of recordings of a piece of music for which the rights owners (composer, recording artist, or copyright -holding record company) did not give consent. In the contemporary legal environment, it is a form of copyright infringement, which may be either a civil wrong or a crime depending on ...

  3. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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    The study analyzed the behavior of 16,000 European music consumers and found that although music piracy negatively affects offline music sales, illegal music downloads had a positive effect on legal music purchases. Without illegal downloading, legal purchases were about two percent lower. [94] The study has received criticism, particularly ...

  4. Metallica v. Napster, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Metallica, et al. v. Napster, Inc. was a 2000 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California case [1] that focused on copyright infringement, racketeering, and unlawful use of digital audio interface devices. Metallica vs. Napster, Inc. was the first case that involved an artist suing a peer-to-peer file sharing ("P2P") software ...

  5. The High Price of Free Music: How Illegal Downloads Are ... - AOL

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    When we want new music, there's a strong temptation to get it for free through file sharing, ripping it from our friends, or downloading it illegally.

  6. Online piracy - Wikipedia

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    Online piracy. Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission, such as music, movies or software. [1][2] The principle behind piracy has predated the creation of the Internet. [not verified in body] Despite its explicit illegality in many developed countries ...

  7. Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Wikipedia

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    Such services grew after Napster was sued by several music industry groups in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. (2001) which ruled that Napster was liable for enabling copyright infringement under the DMCA since they maintained central servers that tracked file sharing; by switching to the peer-to-peer model, these new services avoided this ...

  8. A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    17 U.S.C. § 501, 17 U.S.C. §106. A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th. Cir., 2001) was a landmark intellectual property case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that the defendant, peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster, could be held liable for contributory ...

  9. You Wouldn't Steal a Car - Wikipedia

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    The announcement depicts either a teenage girl trying to illegally download a movie or a gang attempting to buy movies from a bootlegger interwoven with clips of a man committing theft of various objects, and equates these crimes to the unauthorized duplication and distribution of copyrighted materials, such as films.