Technology & Political Economy

1) A person who downloads music, games, etc. illegally can break copyright laws in two ways. The first way is illegal download itself. Secondly when these things are downloaded a share file can also be opened. This makes it very difficult for the DMCA to regulate the use of p2p technology.

2) There job is to monitor the sites and try to catch the people who are illegally downloading. They are becoming more successful, but there are still many problems.

3) As long as there's p2p technology there has to be the DMCA to regulate it. The DMCA will continue to try to regulate the p2p technology and the p2p technology will continue to try find ways to avoid being caught.

4) The first law is quantitive vs. qualitive. Right now the DMCA is doing many things to try to prevent illegal downloading. Hopefully that will be a qualitive change for safer, copyrighted material. The second law suggests a good relationship between the two. They would have to come together to benefit both parties. Lastly, thesis-antithesis-synthesis occurs when the DMCA tracks down and punishes violators and without the p2p there would be no need for the DMCA.

5) The DMCA and Texas A&M have a fair relationship. It is the job of the DMCA to catch illegal file sharers. Texas A&M should work in conjunction with the DMCA. I do think Texas A&M should look into a program such as, ruckus. This program allows college students access to millions of free songs. It’s a legal online download service. This would keep students from downloading music illegally.

6) The DMCA protects those who have copyrighted material. They overlook the people downloading the music. If cds weren’t so expensive than illegal downloading wouldn’t be necessary.

7) If I were to regulate I would impose a downloading fee of a certain amount each month to download x number of songs.

Elizabeth Wakefield