Client Project! Research

Yesterday I began researching into 'Pirate Bay' who and what they were and a little into the court case and outcome. I found that although not actually hosting copyright products they were still sentenced a year in prison and a damages payout of £3 million, for giving links to were the products could be accessed. One article discussing the pirate bay case and them as an organisation mentioned how a teenager directly found of downloading illegal files can not be touched by the law, whereas these people were sentenced purely for posting torrent links. This seems to be of injustice when you look at the two together. And piracy is not going to be conquered by one successful court case it has become to wide spread to start clamping down on, and many of the companies operate servers from abroad where the European laws cant touch them.

I also looked into the types of piracy which at present are the most popular, and out of server computer networks, hyperlinks and peer to peer, peer to peer most definitely triumphed. And with music downloads becoming more and more common place it is said to be damaging the economy, the companies creating films and music are becoming out of pocket.

From research I began to think about a possible target audience and thought about maybe creating a site tackling the issue at a younger age, as that way you can educate before about the consequences and it may prevent them from becoming a part of piracy. As tackling those already apart of it does not seem effective as they don't want and really why would they!?