1. File Sharing
Matthew Prenzler

2. What is File Sharing?
The practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents, or electronic books.

3. Types of File Sharing FTP (File Transfer Protocol) P2P (Peer-to-Peer)
BitTorrent
Online sharing services

4. Legal Issues Who owns the file? The creator of the file?
Anyone who has the file on their machine?
It’s everyone’s file!!!!
It’s my file!!!

5. Grey areas and loopholes
Who’s violating copyrights?
The downloaders?
The ones providing the files?

6. Court Battles Capitol v. Thomas case A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc
Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC (Limewire)

7. Silly Lawyers….. Napster - $26 million
Limewire - $75 trillion (greater than GDP of entire world economy) (settled $105 million out of court)
The Pirate Bay - ~$10 million….for now

8. The Pirate Bay
Swedish company in the front lines of anti-copyright movement
2004- site online as thepiratebay.org
2006- servers taken by police and shut down for three days. Result: site traffic doubled.
2009- Sued for $3.5 million and forced to change name to thepiratebay.se in
injunction against their bandwidth provider

9. “"The world's most resilient BitTorrent site"
Political activists who are trying to prove a point
If it is on the internet it is for anybody
Peter Sunde on his source code: "I wouldn't actually want to have that source code because it sucks – but don't blame me. You could ask the police because they have a copy of it and its public information – they stole it!“

10. Questions?