1. Internet Piracy
By: Andrew Allen

2. The Evolution of Music 1991: The MP3 was created
1998: Napster was released

3. What is Internet Piracy?
By definition
The illegal reproduction and distribution of copyrighted material on the web

4. Topics for today
Who are the criminals when it come to internet piracy?
What laws in the US to prevent piracy? Are they effective? What bills are being debated?
Who is on each side of the battle?

5. A&M Records v. Napster

6. MGM v. Grokster

7. Capitol v. Thomas

8. Stop Internet Piracy Act [house]
Protect IP Act [senate]
“Sites committing or facilitating online piracy require the owner, operator, domain name registrant, or the domain name… to cease and desist further activities constitution in specified IP offenses”
(H.R. 3261)

9. SOPA

10. Supporters

11. Opposition

12. Corporations Divided

13. OPEN Act The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act
Aims at stopping money transfers to foreign piracy websites
Won’t force search engines to censor out links to rouge websites

14. Prevent Piracy Not Innovation
The OPEN Act’s authors:
“will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cyber security risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet”
(Espinel, Chopra, Schmidt)

15. SOPA OPEN United States Justice Department
Blocks domain names of websites that have rouge activity
Main focus on protecting copyright holders
OPEN
United States International Trade Commission
Prevents money transfers to foreign websites that have rouge activity
Main focus on allowing small internet businesses room to innovative without government intervention

16. Questions?