Copyright laws are a problem we have examined quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. It seems our government is also concerned with people and more specifically 12 countries guilty of pirating American movies and music. The 12 countries being closely watched are: Russia, China, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela. Many other countries are stealing American intellectual property as well. However, the other countries are stealing less of it; therefore, they have been placed on a different, less harsh list to be monitored over the next year.
As it was noted in class by some of my peers, the music and movie industry is losing money, but not as much as I would have imagined. I am not convinced that we should be spending this much time monitoring what other people are downloading.
I personally believe our country is facing bigger problems. I am not sure placing economic sanctions against some of these countries will make the American public image any better. I agree that stealing intellectual property such as music and movies is illegal, but will we ever be able to stop it completely? Scam artists still exist. I think we need to rank our battles in order of importance.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2007-05-01-12nations-copyright_N.htm
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Andrea challenges us to prioritize our nations problems. I'm not sure we have'nt. Many of the countries pirating intellectual property are also disrupting our economy in other ways. The Chinese and Indian's are taking many of our industrial jobs; Israel and Lebanon have dirupted the political world for centuries; and several have been causing social problems for our society because of their drug exports.
I believe that the copyright problem is just another venue these countries have exploited. The governments decission to monitor them closer is based more upon other actions of these countries than just the copyright violations.
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