One of the biggest questions raised under the topic of copyright is of copyright reform, 'Do we need to enforce copright reform?' The two sides of the argument look at how putting reform in place means that content will be less accessable which will in turn create a better time for the industries. The other side of the coin is that imposing this suggested reform means that the community created through downloading will be broken and materials much less obtainable.
Copyright infringment is a big problem all over the world as people download more content illegally than they do legally. The indusrties that suffer the most are the music indusrty, film industry and the TV industry. People (especially in the UK and US) tend to download TV programmes and movies illegally because they want to see them first. This impacts on DVD and CD sales, they dip and sometimes plumet due to the record numbers of people downloading. Piracy is also another element that goes hand in hand with copyright. In the last few year piracy has sky-rocketed! People are downloading more and more in recent years meaning piracy has become common place. Which in my opinion is wrong but its so easy to dowith todays technology.
An idea to help combat cinema piracy lies within the introduction of 3D films into the cinema. They are harder to film and therefore copy etc, however they are only being introduced to the cinema not to TV so programme piracy will still be a problem.
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