As far as the last part is concerned, I know that a lot of links and content are being shared from other countries, it seems ITC would be the correct dept to deal with such situations. Tricky tricky, by rights we shouldn't have access to sites that openly engage in copyright infringement seeing as it is an illegal here and we do take it somewhat seriously, however limiting access when those sites don't only offer illegal content would be what is getting under everyone's skin. idk, to me it's a right vs privilege issue. Freedom of information sure, but from sites that haven't broken the law and had themselves blacklisted, and to what end.
This issue has not seen it's last days, like everyone has been saying it'll only get worse. And I wouldn't argue for a minute as to the business it's destroying, it's plain to see.
We're going to see a lot of change in the next few years with the way business will be conducted. They need to hop on board.
As far as who the copyright holders are, who intellectual property belongs to etc.. I feel as long as credit is given where it's needed there shouldn't be an issue.
New bands and artists are sharing their work online by their own rights. Listening through multiple media outlets uploaded by the artists to get it out there, word of mouth is still a very useful tool. However, obtaining and copying their work when they've only offered it for listening/viewing purposes would still be illegal and should be a punishable offense, the severity may need to be tweaked to better fit the offense. There are tonnes of artists whose pictures are very difficult to save/copy. By no means are these people famous or rich (I assume), but they've taken steps to ensure that although their work will be found and will be 'shared' it will be by linking only their sites, images directly without ability to steal.
This issue has not seen it's last days, like everyone has been saying it'll only get worse. And I wouldn't argue for a minute as to the business it's destroying, it's plain to see.
We're going to see a lot of change in the next few years with the way business will be conducted. They need to hop on board.
As far as who the copyright holders are, who intellectual property belongs to etc.. I feel as long as credit is given where it's needed there shouldn't be an issue.
New bands and artists are sharing their work online by their own rights. Listening through multiple media outlets uploaded by the artists to get it out there, word of mouth is still a very useful tool. However, obtaining and copying their work when they've only offered it for listening/viewing purposes would still be illegal and should be a punishable offense, the severity may need to be tweaked to better fit the offense. There are tonnes of artists whose pictures are very difficult to save/copy. By no means are these people famous or rich (I assume), but they've taken steps to ensure that although their work will be found and will be 'shared' it will be by linking only their sites, images directly without ability to steal.
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