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$80,000 per song to $2,250 per song.

But consumer and free speech advocates have opposed the passage of such legislation, arguing that it denies accused Internet pirates the right to challenge the government's charges in court.

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The Pirate Bay has already been mentioned as one of the sites that could be easily taken out under the new French law.

Other countries, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, have not introduced strict legislation yet

You may find this surprising. After all, when you’re on the Internet, digital information can seem to be as free as air. But the fact is that U. S. copyright law prohibits the unauthorized duplication, performance or distribution of a creative work.

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You make an MP3 copy of a song because the CD you bought expressly permits you to do so. But then you put your MP3 copy on the Internet, using a file-sharing network, so that millions of other people can download it.

You have a computer with a CD burner, which you use to burn copies of music you have downloaded onto writable CDs for all of your friends.

The minimum penalty is $750 per song.

…and Copyrighted Images:"Distributing unlawful copies of a copyrighted work violates the copyright owner’s distribution right and, as a result, constitutes copyright infringement. . . . . [Unlawful distribution occurs where] [f]iles of [copyrighted] information are stored in the central system, and subscribers may either ‘download’ information into their[computers] or ‘upload’ information from their home units into the central files . . . ." Playboy Enterprises v. Russ Hardenburgh, Inc., 982 F. Supp. 503 (N.D. Ohio 1997). "[The Copyright Act] provides that an owner of a copyrighted work has the exclusive right to reproduce the work in copies . . . [and] to distribute copies of the work to the public . . . . [A]nyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner … is an infringer of the copyright." Playboy Enterprises v. Webbworld Inc., 991 F. Supp. 543 (N.D. Tex. 1997).

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Criminal penalties can run up to 5 years in prison and/or $250,000 in fines, even if you didn’t do it for monetary or financial or commercial gain.

damages for each of their copyrighted works that you illegally copy or distribute.

Or the copyright holders can sue you for up to $150,000 in statutory

Do The Crime, Do The Time

If you do not have legal permission, and you go ahead and copy or distribute copyrighted music anyway, you can be prosecuted in criminal court and/or sued for damages in civil court.

Having the hardware to make unauthorized music recordings doesn’t give you the right to steal.

The courts have consistently ruled that P2P and other unauthorized uploading and downloading inherently amount to copyright infringement and therefore constitute a crime.

If you did expect something in return, even if it just involves swapping your files for someone else’s, as in MP3 trading, you can be sentenced to as much as 5 years in prison.

Regardless of whether you expected to profit, you’re still liable in civil court for damages and lost profits of the copyright holder

"Although defendant [MP3.com] seeks to portray its service as the ‘functional equivalent’ of storing its subscribers’ CDs, in actuality defendant is re-playing for the subscribers converted versions of the recording it copied, without authorization, from plaintiffs’ copyrighted CDs.

$12.5 billion of economic losses every year,

With investigators deployed in cities across the country, the RIAA is working closely with law enforcement to pull pirate products off the street and to demonstrate that the consequences for this illegal activity are real.

In response, the music industry has employed a multi-faceted approach to combat this piracy, combining education, innovation, and enforcement:

Our goal with all these anti-piracy efforts is to protect the ability of the recording industry to invest in new bands and new music and, in the digital space, to give legal online services a chance to flourish.

Our goal with all these anti-piracy efforts is to protect the ability of the recording industry to invest in new bands and new music and, in the digital space, to give legal online services a chance to flourish.

• We are continuing our efforts to educate fans about the value of music and the right ways to acquire it and, when necessary, to enforce our rights through the legal system. • Record companies have licensed hundreds of digital partners that offer a range of legal models to fans: download and subscription services, cable and satellite radio services, Internet radio webcasting, legitimate peer-to-peer services, video-on-demand, podcasts, CD kiosks and digital jukeboxes, mobile products such as ringbacks

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We are continuing our efforts to educate fans about the value of music and the right ways to acquire it and, when necessary, to enforce our rights through the legal system

are continuing our efforts to educate fans about the value of music and the right ways to acquire it and, when necessary, to enforce our rights through the legal system.

manufacturing mass numbers of counterfeit CDs for sale on street corners, in flea markets or at retail stores.

If you buy a CD then it’s very easy to ‘rip’ a copy of it to your computer’s hard drive and then to copy the files to your mobile phone or MP3 player.  Under UK copyright law this is technically an unlicensed copy and so doing it means you are breaking the law

most lawyers think that making personal copies of music like this would not get you into trouble.

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Most songs bought from Apple’s iTunes Music Store are protected, and can only be played on five devices, though you can also buy DRM free music.

How can I get rid of pop-ups? Modern browsers like Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer let you stop websites opening new browser windows, or ‘pop-ups’ The University of Illinois website has details of how to set pop-up blocking for most browsers: www.lis.uiuc.edu/itd/tutorials/Popup/ Microsoft’s advice is at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/web/sp2_popupblocker.mspx

Peer to peer software is not in itself dangerous or illegal

People who give away “free” software have to get something out of it.

Students who get caught downloading illegal software can be locked out of the campus network, put on probation, or worse.

Employers today check your records. And they check up on employees, too. Sometimes software pirates in the workplace are fired.

when you’re busted, you’re looking at up to $250,000 in fines and up to five years in jail.