Added: 01/13/2006 |
Download musicMorpheus - is a software which will let you download the movies, mp3 music files very easily. This powerful download lets you get anything you want including all of the free mp3 music files, PC games, video's and all software.
An issue of music downloading takes more and more attention, and there was the recent decision that Morpheus is not illegal software, but it appears the record industry is hardly standing still. According to Cnet, all of the major record companies including Vivendi's Universal Music Group, AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Bertelsmann's BMG and EMI Group have invested into small software companies dedicated to building programs to attack the PCs of people who download pirated music or movies.
The effects of such programs range from re-directing the user to a site where they can download the media legitimately -- which is rather harmless -- to locking up a system for minutes or even hours. It's been suggested that other programs are under development that would trigger a DoS (Denial of Service) attack against an offending customer as well. The last method of protection the article discusses is the RIAA's already implemented idea of uploading hundreds of fake copies of a song or movie. This has been proven to have limited success in practice.
Its an unquestionable fact that the owners have the right to protect their members' content from being stolen online, and no one has contested their right to upload false music or movies in order to seed the networks with bad copies. Granting that, however, a theoretical deployment of the above software by the owners could raise serious legal questions.
First and foremost there's the question of whether or not the punishment fits the crime. Even if an individual is proven guilty of content theft, the degree of damage which the owners-sponsored programs inflicted on their machine could be contested as excessive, particularly if measures even more stringent than the ones above were adopted. Instituting a mandatory format of someone's hard drive would remove the offending data, after all, but would also completely destroy the person's system. To draw a rough parallel, shopkeepers are allowed to apprehend shoplifters, but not by shooting them in the kneecaps as they run away.
Whether or not this type of clause would come into effect obviously will depend on the type of program used and the severity of the infraction, but its existence should give the owners reason to think very carefully about their decisions in deploying such technology.
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