My Term Research Project

In my term research project, I spoke about copyright infringement and how new media has effected this field in many ways. In the presentation, I spoke about how the emergence of new media, mainly the internet, has given people the opportunity to use P2P file sharing as well as just downloading programs like limewire and kazaa in order to receive both movies and music and then try to sell them illegally. Copyright Infringement is extremely illegal and could be punished by huge fines as well as possible jail time. Despite this fact, many people all over the world continue to use P2P file sharing in order to receive their movies and music and they think nothing of it as if it was completely fine. Many television as well as movie companies have begun putting up their shows and movies on sites like hulu.com in order to compete with P2P file sharing. On these sites you can watch perfect quality videos as opposed to the ones off limewire that aren't to great in quality and all that changes is that there is one or two thirty second commercials. By putting these videos onto these websites, they would still be able to make a profit from the advertising as opposed to limewire and kazaa where they make no profit at all. The companies were forced to give in and conform to the changing times and start allowing viewers to watch their shows on the internet. Copyright Infringement has effected people in numerous ways. No matter whether they are positive or negative effects, the effects are visible.