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Hey guys.

I need some good quality, well written opinions on what you think about the current copyright laws for your country.
I am currently writing an essay and survey for the effectiveness and restrictiveness of the current copyright laws.

I have two questions for you:

1. Do you think that the current Copyright Laws for your country are too restrictive?
2. Do you believe that the current Copyright Laws are ineffective and need to be changed?
If yes to question 2, what do you recommend needs to be done to improve the stability and effectiveness of the current legislation of copyrighting?

What I think about the copyright laws in Australia and pretty much the world-

. I believe that the current Australian Copyright laws are very ineffective and not restrictive enough, statistics show that piracy costs Australia up to 1.37 billion dollars a year, and that up to 20% of Australia’s population have or consistently do pirate software, movies, eBooks and other digital media, that means that an estimated 4,600,000 out of the 23 million residents of Australia pirate protected digital content, this clearly proves that the current copyright laws are extremely ineffective and need to be improved in all areas. I believe that new security measures need to be looked into to stop the copying of protected digital content and much harsher penalties and fines need to be put in place and advertised regularly, to show what pirates are doing to our film, television and movie industry, and to show what will happen to the pirates if they are caught. Over 6,000+ jobs are cut per year due to the loss of expected profit from pirating, so it’s not just effecting the industry, its effecting people’s lives, although when it comes to Television Networks, pirating makes sense in some areas, there may be a show you've missed or a show you want to see that has been aired somewhere else but you have to wait weeks for it to air for you, I think that television networks need to figure out some way of making things readily available faster, and need to be on the ball making sure everyone's up to speed with the latest shows and episodes, and cut down on re-runs, perhaps this would minimise the amount of TV shows/series pirated.


These questions are written by me, its a part of my legal studies assessment. Thanks!

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I try and respect copyright laws, sometimes though software costs thousands of dollars and as a learning individual; I'm not willing to spend that amount of money.

On things that are lower in cost, 20, 30, 50; I'd be more willing to support developers since it is their living and most software that cheap is developed by small companies.

People will transfer data one way or another, that's a given. They have been doing that since those vinyl audio plates (whatever they are called).. wait.. Records.

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No stopping it, all it really does it support them. People who want to buy will tend to sample it and then buy. People who want to have it but will pass on it if they have to buy it won't buy it. Simple as that.

To be honest, I think it causes for more exposure than anything.

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At the end of the day, the laws are in place because people do download films/music/programs for free and the people doing the work get nothing from it. From a stats perspective, I think that most films and music make enough from legit sources for the pirate world not to leave them out of pocket, but it's a morality thing. Not going to stop people doing it though!

As for the laws themselves... Well the laws are what I would call quite old and what I'd call "black and white". A lot of laws I find are like this and don't take into account the modern world that we live in. An example for you:

If I buy a CD with some Music on, I'm then legally allowed to resell that CD onto someone else.

If a buy a song from say iTunes or another digital media provider, I'm not then allowed to resell that item.

Now the above could be flexed, I could copy the CD and sell copies and with a digital file I could then resell it 1000's of times, so it's like being between a rock and a hard place. Until someone comes up with a proper way to redistribute something, I don't think laws are going to change and it's certainly not fair that nobody pays for anything.

I'm by no means an expert on this subject and some of what I said is probably quite obvious, but at least there's a low level look at one of the issues since you asked.

Meh I hate copyright laws and even if they made them more strict it wouldn't cause me to buy more products legally. I just wouldn't buy stuff.

I believe that the laws are a good starting point. As it is said, "Their head is in the right place, but their heart isn't as much." These laws are headed in the right direction, but the punishment is a bit ridiculous. My thing with piracy is this: I only do it if I either:
a) Want to try something and if I like it, buy it
b) It's beyond overpriced (i.e. Adobe)
c) I have zero dollars because the US education system is fucked

Piracy will be there, one way or another, just as drugs. You can't stop it. You can only hope to regulate it.

tl;dr piracy laws won't do shit but make people upset even though they are within reason

I have pirated about 20gb of music, probably 10k of software and that's just on this computer. My isp are not allowed to look at users goings on so following up on copyright infringement in my country is non-existent but no I don't think it should be changed as just because they enforce it more doesn't mean I or anyone else would buy it then. Plus there will always be ways to stay hidden from them. They can't and won't stop it, there will always be a way and a place to do it. Another thing that annoys me is tv shows showing ads on you tube etc then not showing in certain countries, tv shows that are not available where I live or on my tv provider have to be the thing I pirate online the most. Also programs like after affects which is 1,000 dollars which I use quite a lot or cinema 4d which is 3,000, I have both or them but even if they enforced copyright laws that doesn't mean I would buy them, because they are beyond ridiculously priced for an average person. So I really don't see how piracy costs so much money, because most who do it would not but it in the first place.

I see you just saying you've pirated a lot of shit and you wouldn't pay for it. But your last sentence got me fuming. I'm well aware that piracy is just creating a copy, but do you not think you'd be more willing to pay a price for software if piracy methods didn't exist? I see why the laws are in place and I do agree with why they're there. If you created a wonderful piece of software... Took weeks, even months worth of work to make awesome, would you not be a bit upset that someone just decided to copy it and allow anyone to take it for free? Even though your pay relied on that software being sold?
Point I'm really trying to make... Piracy isn't a huge problem, but it effects software devs quite a bit, since that's ALL they do.
All companies need to do to cut piracy rates is lower prices of software; not increase DRM-protection.

Nope I would not have the extra money and would do without. Also you are fuming? you have never pirated even watching a music video on you tube not uploaded by the copyrighted holder is piracy. Hence why people have to get permission, most don't and use the fair usage act in the description. Plus the companies I have got software from, sony, adobe muti-billion dollar companies, so no I would never buy their over priced software. Also, of course I would be upset if someone was stealing my software, but it's the internet and it's to be expected.