[Poll] Week 4 Poll Result Analysis.

Last week poll result :

Why did you illegal download ?

• 9 votes [82%] - Its free of charge!


• 1 votes [09%] - More convenience !


• 1 votes [09%] - Not sure / dont know whether it was illegal .


• 0 votes [00%] - No, I dun illegal download !
  
  Total votes : 11

[Info] Ways to prevent Internet Piracy !!

By now, you should know that what is internet piracy and what this thing can cause if you still doing it. But, some of you may ask: " Download is normal, we can download anytime, many website provides link to do so, how are we suppose to prevent it? " Well, there are many ways to prevent it.

An important thing to connect an internet user with website that provide illegally download is not all about the website, it is a software name peer-to-peer, as know as p2p. This software connects internet user to others without need for a central point management. Some of its programs do, provide some legal downloads; but of course, most of them are not. And yet, some of these programs may cause the computer system and NU Network in risk.

[News] isoHunt was sued by Record Labels, with charge up to 4million!!

isoHunt is once again become a target of the copyrights holders. With no less then 26 major record with one purpose that is to shut down the the popular Canadian file-sharing website. With the claimed compensation up to 4million!!

After the painful fight again the american movie industry, isoHunt may face it's end. IsoHunt founder Gary Fung and it's company was sued by the the record label that include the Sony's "Big Four", EMI, WArner and Universal.

[News] Web piracy kill jobs.

New York City, the United States largest city and its true media capital is telling citizens that "piracy doesn't work" as part of a new publicly funded antipiracy ad campaign.

This messages is to those New Yorkers citizen that illegally download music and movie without paying. Illegal downloader will "kills jobs" in the city.

The advertisement about the message appear at bus shelters, movie theaters,website and video screens found in taxicabs.

[Poll] Week 3 Poll Result Analysis.

After a week of poll question "Did you illegally download before? " had been posted, we found out there are amazingly 90% who has done illegally download from website before. Only 10% still in blur case and don't understand.

As we saw, most of the internet users are not fully understand the consequences of illegally download. But past was past, we hope followers can aware of this problem in the future so that we can ensure we will be safe from any internet piracy case.

[Poll] Week 2 Poll Result Analysis.

After a week of investigation on the question "do you know what is internet piracy?" , 50% of the people who voted choose "Yes" and another 50% of people choose "Know, but dun care". Base on the result I conclude that all the people that voted on this blog know what is internet piracy , but 50% of the people don't seem to care about it. Non of the people voted for "What That" and

"Just know".

[News] Google Censoring file-sharing website.

"It’s taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA. The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload from its instant and autocomplete services. The reactions from affected companies and services are not mild, with BitTorrent Inc., RapidShare and Vodo all speaking out against this act of commercial censorship."

Entertainment company request to root out piracy on the interest,as resulted in commercial censorship.The famous searh engine "Google",has announced that they will start filtering "piracy related" from it "Autocomplete" and "Instant"(I'm Feeling Lucky) services.

[Info] Side effects of Internet Piracy !!

This is what we will become if we were sued for Internet Piracy

After we watched so many cases that related to internet piracy, I'm sure that internet piracy is a main issue in the internet world now. But, do you think that these issues have nothing to do with you? You will get free from any issue about internet piracy although you are only just an internet end-user at home? You are wrong!! In September of 2003, a 12 years old New York City girl was sued for illegally music downloading . According to the news, up to $150,000 will be charged for per song; yes, you read it right, "per-song". Let me ask you, how many song(s) have you downloaded? Do you still take it lightly now??

[News] Internet Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Study Concludes

The Japanese Research Institute if Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) has published a study toward the effect of online piracy on the sale and rentals of Japanese Anime. The result was quite shocking.

While the music and movie industry claim that the internet piracy is causing them trouble due to the unauthorized sharing , but on the other side found that the overall effect of internet piracy is actually a positive one.

RIETI has conducted a study base on the effects of YouTube and the popular P2P-network Winny on the DVD sales and rental on the Japanese Anime. The result is estimate of 105 anime was show in YouTube does not negatively affect DVD rentals , but surprisingly it appears to help to raise the DVD sales. Although Winny file sharing have negatively affecting the DVD rentals but it does not show effect on DVD sales.

[News] VeryCD's saga continues !!

Since September of 2003, VeryCD introduced eMule, which is a open source of downloading into China; since then, there are many internet users had already set VeryCD as a website that share musics, videos, movies, games and more. For some internet users, VeryCD equals to free download. But, these advantages have quickly became a side effect as the website became a main website that involve any internet piracy case.

But when BTchina was forced to shut down in 2009, VeryCD quickly changed their website services and removed most of the files that involved internet piracy in it. In 2009, VeryCD changed some function in eMule and this had already caused them the title of "world's top P2P shareware".

[News] "Avatar" , most downloaded movie in 2010.

올해 최다 불법다운 영화는 ‘아바타’
Most illegal downloaded movie , 'Avatar'.

Avatar , a movie directed by James Cameron in 2009 become the top movie that been illegally distribute and downloaded in 2010.

Base on file-sharing news on BBC blog , the Avatar movie file being hosted for illegally distribute in most of the well-known file-sharing site and there were about 1660 million times being download illegally.

Despite Avatar being a top downloaded movie in 2010 , still the movie 'Avatar' hit $2.8billion US dollar Gross revenue and this is the highest gross revenue for movie ever recorded.

[News] Internet Piracy Crackdown in China

At 24th jan 2011, China has taken actions based on internet piracy toward the well-known download site - VeryCD, .VeryCD works similar to the famous eMule(a famous p2p download tool).

Currently, the VeryCD music channel is forced to closed and the video content is watch through eMule Daquan jump directly to the relevant web page or video site.