Posted on June 7, 2011 |
No Comments The onset of the millennium brought into our world many wonderful inventions which changed the course of how humans would do things. One of these very significant changes was the spread of internet and the invention of napster and such similar sites. In the early 2000’s, Napster completely changed how we obtained our music. With a click of a button, we had a song on the computer which we normally had to buy a disk to obtain. It was free and there were no limits to what could be obtained. Thus started the age of internet piracy and illegal downloads. As per the end user license agreement, no individual can give away the content they have purchased or make copies of it. But in this new age, this is precisely what is happening, and on a mammoth scale. After napster was forced to shut down, there have been various other software’s and websites which have been carrying on the same principle. Some of the most common ones are Rapidshare and Megaupload. These websites are popular because with one touch, a person can obtain almost anything, and free of cost also. What could be better people asked? But there is more. New technology called torrents allow for massive music and movie downloads to take place for free. Websites like uTorrent and PirateBay are pioneers of this new technology. It is so popular now because with a single click downloads can take place without the physical presence of the downloader. Thus it started with music and has now spread to even movies, with everything in digital form being available for download. Nowadays, there are even softwares available to download videos from sites like YouTube, which were only meant to be viewed. With such software, sites which have videos uploaded into them are...
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