Talk:Analysis: Motion Picture Association of America crackdown on the illegal downloading and sharing of movies over the Internet. (200). Day To Day. (Gabby)

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[[ The article Analysis: Motion Picture Association of America Crackdown on The Illegal Downloading and Sharing of Movies over the Internet, written by Noah Adams, focuses on how The Motion Picture Association of American has begun a search for illegal pirates. They released that on November 16th, the organization will begin to file lawsuits against any individuals who are caught illegally downloading motion pictures online. The Motion Picture Association of America is following in the footsteps of the recording industry by already suing thousands of file-swappers. Adams’ shares information he gathered from technology contributor Xeni Jardin. Xeni Jardin explains the reasoning for filing lawsuits, which is even though they are not excited about suing potential customers, their argument is that films are going to eventually be shared online to the same degree as music is. He shares that they have acknowledged if this happens and you multiply it by tens of thousands of movies traded online each day, it will cause a huge strain on their financials.

Adams’ begins to include in his article the steps being taken to resolve the crisis of illegal movie downloading. Jardin’s shares that Hollywood has asked Congress to pass new laws. There have been campaigns to pressure some universities to spread awareness on their campus networks. They have started to sue network operations and they have released public education campaigns about the issue. Adams’ brings focus to how is this even truly affecting the movie industry when they are a billion-dollar corporation, should we really care? Jardin’s explain that even though the movie industry has so much money, the MPAA is claiming this is a crisis for them because if movie piracy becomes more popular this could potentially destroy the industry. Even though box office earnings aren’t down and last year’s recipients were more than nine and a half billion, John Malcolm, MPAA’s director of anti-piracy operations says the main reason for suing individual file-sharers involves the connection with commercial movie blogging. Adams’ than includes Mr. Jason Schultz the staff attorney and Electronic Frontier Foundation, who shares why they are using file-sharing as an easy scapegoat. He states that it gets them big headlines and it makes it easier for them to go after teen-agers, than it is to go after organized crime and sort of commercial piracy.

The strengths of this article are it includes multiple opinions from professional associates of the Motion Picture Association of America, who are all credible sources and can provide valid and useful information to Adams’ story. He shares a lot of the important details of the crisis including the steps the MPAA is taking and why they have finally chosen to sue anyone who they can catch partaking in illegal movie downloading. Adams’ brings awareness to how people may not care about the movie industry losing money due to them being a billion-dollar industry and asks the questions of why we should care to stop illegally downloading. Although the interview with the MPAA representative’s states that they are not seeking to catch every single file-sharer, there is still a chance you could be sued for the act of illegally downloading movies and people should take this issue seriously. Adams’ outlines the outcome the MPAA hopes for after filing for these lawsuits and gathers a lot of necessary detail to support this story, and make people understand the seriousness of their steps to cut down movie piracy. ]]