lewinski+blog+analysis

We were asked to analyze a blog post to prepare questions for Proximity’s winter survey. The following is a summary from guardian.co.uk about internet pirates and how they elude law suits by finding safe havens in different countries. I suggest we include questions on the survey to determine if TU students believe that trying to stop file sharing is necessary.

Internet pirates are illegally sharing all forms of media for the whole world to download. When the pirates are confronted by governments to stop they move to another country. Places no longer safe for piracy such as Sweden are being abandoned for new places like China and Ukraine. These internet pirates are seeking refuge in new countries because administrators there are much less likely to take action against them. Their fight was sparked by a lawsuit which initially brought charges against the most infamous file sharing website- The Pirate Bay. The author declares that no sanctions places on illegal file sharers will ever work because they will find new locations to establish a base for their operations.
 * Internet pirates practices**

This article outlines the continuing problem of illegal file sharing and how governments that are trying to prevent it have been largely unsuccessful due to two main factors:
 * Why this article is of importance**
 * __Co-operation__: Many are hopeful that greater co-operation between international governments will be the solution to prevent new safe havens for internet pirates from being created.
 * __Loopholes__: When one country decides to take legal actions against illegal file sharers, internet pirates simply find another country in which they will be safe to illegally host files for all to download.


 * Questions for the Winter Survey**
 * Do you think that allocating resources towards stopping file sharing is a worthwhile investment?
 * Do you believe that there truly is any actual way to put an end to file sharing?
 * If file sharing goes unchecked, do you believe that it will be the end of the music industry as we know it?

__Reference__ Johnson, B. //Internet pirates find 'bulletproof' havens for illegal file sharing//. Retrieved January 4, 2009, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/05/internet-piracy-bulletproof