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[MobiTalk9]

Music piracy: Cyber cell arrests engg student - Indian Express

[GumSlone]

Music piracy: Cyber cell arrests engg student - Indian Express

you know him?

[FunGalaxy]

it should be true. hmmmmmmmmmm

[ozziemale31]

well mp3s are still copyrighted material by that artist. it mainly becomes illegal if u download them to share with the public or sell them
some countries it isnt illegal but others it is
Copyright infringement

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An advertisement for copyright and patent preparation services from 1906, when copyright registration formalities were still required in the US.


Copyright infringement is the unauthorized or prohibited use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright holder's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works.
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• 1 "Piracy"
• 2 "Theft"
• 3 Enforcement responsibility
• 4 Criminal liability
• 5 Online intermediary liability
  • 5.1 Countries where sharing files without profit is legal
  • 5.2 Russian law
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 Further reading
• 9 External links

[edit] "Piracy"

The practice of labelling the infringement of exclusive rights in creative works as "piracy" predates statutory copyright law. Prior to the Statute of Anne 1709, the Stationers' Company of London in 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who violated the charter were labelled pirates as early as 1603.[1] After the establishment of copyright law with the 1709 Statute of Anne in Britain, the term "piracy" has been used to refer to the unauthorized manufacturing and selling of works in copyright.[2] Article 12 of the 1886 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works uses the term "piracy" in relation to copyright infringement, stating "Pirated works may be seized on importation into those countries of the Union where the original work enjoys legal protection."[3] Article 61 of the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) requires criminal procedures and penalties in cases of "wilful trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy on a commercial scale".[4] Piracy traditionally refers to acts intentionally committed for financial gain, though more recently, copyright holders have described online copyright infringement, particularly in relation to peer-to-peer file sharing networks, as "piracy."[2]
[edit] "Theft"


An unskippable anti-piracy film included on movie DVDs equates copyright infringement with theft.


Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement as "theft". In law copyright infringement does not refer to actual theft, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without authorization.[5] Courts have distinguished between copyright infringement and theft, holding, for instance, in the United States Supreme Court case Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootleg phonorecords did not constitute stolen property and that "...interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright... 'an infringer of the copyright.'" In the case of copyright infringement the province guaranteed to the copyright holder by copyright law is invaded, i.e. exclusive rights, but no control, physical or otherwise, is taken over the copyright, nor is the copyright holder wholly deprived of using the copyrighted work or exercising the exclusive rights held.[6] Recently the bill 978 (AKA anti-streaming bill) has jeopardized the machinima community. The extremely stringent bill expressly states that a first offense incurs a punishment of 5-10 years in a maximum security prison.
[edit] Enforcement responsibility

The enforcement of copyright is the responsibility of the copyright holder.[7] Article 50 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) requires that signatory countries enable courts to remedy copyright infringement with injunctions and the destruction of infringing products, and award damages.[4] More recently copyright holders have demanded that states act to defend copyright holders' rights and enforce copyright law through active policing of copyright infringement. It has been demanded that states provide criminal sanctions for all types of copyright infringement and pursue copyright infringement through administrative procedures, rather than the judicial due process required by TRIPs.[7]
[edit] Criminal liability

Article 61 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) requires that signatory countries establish criminal procedures and penalties in cases of "willful trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy on a commercial scale".[4] More recently copyright holders have demanded that states provide criminal sanctions for all types of copyright infringement.[7]
[edit] Online intermediary liability

Whether or not internet intermediaries have liability for copyright infringement by users, and without the intermediaries' authorisation, has been subject to debate and court cases in a number of countries.[8] Liability of online intermediaries has been one of the earliest legal issues surrounding the internet. Early court cases focused on the liability of internet service providers (ISPs) for hosting, transmitting or publishing content that could be actioned under civil or criminal law, such as libel, defamation, or pornography.[9] As different content was considered in different legal systems and in the absence of common definitions for "ISPs", "bulletin boards" or "online publishers", early law on online intermediaries' liability is widely different from country to country. The first laws on online intermediaries' liability were passed from the mid 1990s onwards and the debate has shifted away from questions about whether internet intermediaries are liable for different content, such as libellous content or copyright infringing content, towards a debate on whether online intermediaries should generally be made responsible for content accessible through their services or infrastructure.[10]

The BitTorrent protocol: In this animation, the colored bars beneath all of the 7 clients in the upper region above represent the file, with each color representing an individual piece of the file. After the initial pieces transfer from the seed (large system at the bottom), the pieces are individually transferred from client to client. The original seeder only needs to send out one copy of the file for all the clients to receive a copy. To stop animation, click browser's Stop or hit ESC key.


Internet intermediaries used to be understood primarily in terms of internet service providers (ISPs), however, internet intermediaries are now also understood to be internet portals, software and games providers, those providing virtual information such as interactive forums and comment facilities with or without a moderation system, aggregators, universities, libraries and archives, web search engines, chat rooms, web blogs, mailing lists, and any website which provides access to third party content through, for example, hyperlinks. Questions of liability have emerged in relation to internet communications infrastructure intermediaries other than ISPs, including internet backbone providers, cable companies and mobile communications providers.[11]
The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (199 and the European E-Commerce Directive (2000) provide online intermediaries with safe harbor provisions, known as mere conduit principle in the Directive. Online intermediaries who host content that infringes copyright are not liable, so long as they do not know about it and take actions once the infringing content is brought to their attention. However, questions have arisen in relation to online intermediaries that are not hosts, particularly in the context of copyright infringement through peer-to-peer file sharing networks. Such intermediaries may be regarded as enabling or assisting in the downloading and uploading of files by users, and may include the writer of a peer-to-peer software, the websites that allow users to download peer-to-peer software, and in the case of the BitTorrent protocol the torrent site website and the torrent tracker. These intermediaries do not host or transmit the files that infringe copyright, though they may be considered to be "pointing to" the files. Since the late 1990s copyright holders have taken legal actions against a number of peer-to-peer intermediaries, such as Napster, Grokster, eMule, SoulSeek and BitTorrent, and case law on the liability of internet service providers (ISPs) in relation to copyright infringement has emerged primarily in relation to these cases.[12]
The decentralised structure of peer-to-peer networks does not sit easily with existing laws on online intermediaries' liability. The BitTorrent protocol established an entirely decentralised network architecture in order to distribute large files effectively and recent developments in peer-to-peer technology towards more complex network configurations are said to have been driven by a desire to avoid liability as intermediaries under existing laws.[13] While ISPs and other organisations acting as online intermediaries, such as libraries, have been given protection under existing safe harbor provisions in relation to copyright infringement, peer-to-peer file sharing intermediaries have been denied access to the safe harbor provisions in relation to copyright infringement. Legal action in relation to copyright infringement against peer-to-peer intermediaries, such as Napster, are generally brought in relation to principles of secondary liability for copyright infringement, such as contributory liability and vicarious liability.[14]
[edit] Countries where sharing files without profit is legal

Downloading copied music is legal in some countries, such as Canada[15] The Netherlands[16], Spain[17], and Panama, provided that the songs are not sold.
[edit] Russian law

Downloading music and films for home use is legal due to exception provided by section 1273 of Russian Federation Civil Code. A special 1% compensatory levy intended for copyright holders is collected from the price of certain goods (like computers or clean CD-RW disks).[cit

Copyright infringement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[athora]

WTF! If its not to listen and enjoy, for what music is for?

[StRiNg_MaStEr]

He was arrested for hacking into music company site to get unreleased tracks
they complained and he arrested

[andrew3008]

thank god now my ball came to its place

[subzero]

No he got done for free mp3 idiots not hacking .....

He will be going to jail for 25 years

[morency]

why the site are still online ?
www.songsdl.com
www.mp3don.com

[subzero]

No i know other india who knows this guy and he got done for mp3 sorry to tell you his site is now control by india police soon to go down.

[coder4u]

this guy is arrest by cyber cell because he is running pirated music and complain is done by Indian Music Industry

[Pflash]

Hmmm but i recommend mp3 sites owner to take their licence otherwise they have to suffer (cyber crime)

[StRiNg_MaStEr]

oh yes i m applying for BMI licence
any one in here using it ?
i just wanted to know it wil work in india or not

[ajit55u]

that guy running web site (pc site) with 128 kbps songs
i think mobile site with 64 kbps songs not illegal???????

[wapmaster2]

if he was arrested for pirated music this is not a big crime may be submit some fine "kuki india me le de ke chalta hai" but if he was trying to hack that is non bellable crime so this is a goog warning for hackers !!