Copyright Information

Ever since the copyright laws were established, the consequences of copyright infringement were perceivable, but not common knowledge. Since the Internet became widely available and the associated file swapping lead to many copyright infringement cases, the consequences of breaking copyright law became widely known as punishment for piracy. For a while there were really funny ads on German television, which targeted pirates and describing possible consequences of copyright violations. In one clip, you see a woman with two youngish kids somewhere on the street singing "Happy Birthday". How the clip progresses, so the camera changes the angle and zooms out, revealing that the three are standing in front of a huge jail and sing to a figure appearing in one of the windows with iron bars. At that moment, the clip stops and a voice reads the statement written on the telly as well: "Piracy is crime. Face the consequences." There are not only negative consequences of the copyright infringement cases. Without the Napster case, the peer to peer file swapping software, there would not be the iTunes store. The convenience we have nowadays, to download our favorite songs for a relatively low price from the Internet, yes, we have