In this day and age the sharing and downloading of copyrighted digital
files is thought to be absolutely harmless but what people don't realize is
that this actually has a negative impact on the media industry and a wide range
of people majorly.
Goel stated that the survival of the media industry is at stake because they
claim that billions of dollars are lost in sales due to people downloading
instead (2010).
Since people can now download files over the internet through file
sharing this has currently caused less people to go into stores and buy
physical copies of music or videos. With the new law the media industry can
take action and have more control against copyright infringers by notifying the
proper internet service providers each time someone downloads a copyrighted
file illegally.
This new
process of notification and take-down will most likely deter more people
from file sharing copyrighted files and more legitimate purchases will be made
as a result of less people carrying out peer to peer file sharing.
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