Legal and illegal file sharing has to do with the copyright owner. Copyright is one of the most important things in the life of the businessman. This is because intellectual property is one of the most important things an entrepreneur can own. If the entrepreneur has something that can generate money, then they are his ideas. These ideas are what make inventions, services and products. Therefore, an entrepreneur must be very careful about how he protects his ideas and, therefore, his copyright.
Therefore, the advent of peer-to-peer sharing or file sharing has caused a huge gap when it comes to an entrepreneur’s intellectual property. A businessman used to be able to obtain copyrights and that would be enough to protect his works from most people. However, the new age of the Internet has made it too easy for people to share files over the Internet. Therefore, many entrepreneurs find that their intellectual works are shared over the Internet without them receiving fair compensation for that work.
This is why there are so many copyright disputes on the Internet. This is also the reason why so many representatives of Congress are trying to regulate the Internet because of the widespread hacking activities that Internet users are doing right now. Copyright people often have a bit of money to influence the way the laws work. Therefore, they are trying to tighten the screws on people who are engaged in online hacking.
Whether or not this has been effective remains to be seen because so many people are doing this activity that it’s hard to catch them all. The response to this problem has been to attack the owners of the file sharing program themselves. This has been done with some success as there is a major file sharing owner now in jail due to the hacking activities of its users. This is an unfortunate situation, but it will continue to happen until hacking becomes a rarely done activity in the future.
However, there is legal file sharing and it is the sharing of information or products that a particular user currently owns the copyright to. This type of file sharing is permitted by law and is at the discretion of the user. There is nothing wrong with a user sharing knowledge of it, as long as it is a product, service, or intellectual property that is owned by the user.
The real problem is when a user does not own the copyright to the product, service, or intellectual property they are sharing. This is illegal as it is considered piracy by local and national governments. So this type of file sharing will always be illegal and will always be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law because this type of hacking should not be allowed to happen.
As I said before, if there is something an entrepreneur has, it is his ideas and his copyright. If these things are taken away from the businessman, then he really has nothing else. Illegal file sharing will always be frowned upon now and in the future. Therefore, the user should always be careful about the types of information he shares and whether or not he owns the information he is trying to share.
