Word: copyright
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...broadband home connections, $40 TV tuner cards that snap into your PC and cheap ways to store data. Looking for episodes of Friends? The MPAA counted more than 5,000 locations on the Internet last year where people could download episodes for free. Using custom software to track copyright violations, it also found 4,000 sites for The Simpsons and 2,000 for The Sopranos. Big Pussy is not going to like that...
...least his legal costs aren't an issue. "There is no way the U.S. is going to interfere with law in Taiwan," he predicts. Besides, Taiwan's Internet copyright laws are virtually nonexistent, experts there say. "Several articles under the criminal law lay down penalties for crimes via Internet such as money laundering and counterfeits," explains Chen Mei-ling, at Taiwan's Ministry of Justice. "Other than that, we have no laws...
...have the right to publish on my website public domain books or will books printed after 1922 remain under copyright forever?” he asked...
Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, which represents published book authors, explained that copyright protection is necessary to compensate writers or “they will be forced to turn to other lines of work...
...Copyright protection is meant to last only a “period of time—shorter than the period of time when it’s utterly useless to be freely used by the public for whatever value possible,” Zittrain said...