However, "what the law fails to address are acts of piracy committed: by governments, within territorial waters, for political purposes." (Vallar, 1) Much like in the past, governments who are incapable of levying the kind of direct political authority in trade as they would desire are inclined by this dearth of regulation to appeal to seafaring piracy
In specificity, there was published a 1999 National Commission on Terrorism report in which the agency warned specifically that Bin Laden's network was invested in hijacking airplanes to be used as 'missiles' attacking American structures. (Young, 1) the risks here, as above, would be catastrophic in scale and nature
Piracy Somalia Resurgence of Piracy in Somalia According to the BBC, piracy is more prevalent in Somalia than anywhere else in the world, particularly along the nation's eastern coastline where political instability has been most rife. "With the breakdown of civil society, Somalia has degenerated into a no-man's land subject to clan or Islamic Shari'ah law" (Coffen-Smout, 1998)
"With the breakdown of civil society, Somalia has degenerated into a no-man's land subject to clan or Islamic Shari'ah law" (Coffen-Smout, 1998).The prevalence of piracy in Somalia has caused a humanitarian as well as an economic crisis, as: "Pirates generally use speedboats to steal trading goods" or even humanitarian aid and donated food from other nations, "sometimes impounding ships and crew at gunpoint and then demanding ransoms before they are released" (Doyle 2006)
Within deontological theory, there are two main perspectives to consider -- agent-centered and victim-centered. (Alexander & Moore, 2007) Agent-centered theory is based on the premise that the agent, in this case Yahoo, has a set of obligations and permissions that drive action (or inaction)
Consequentialist ethics contends that the morality of an action derives from its outcome. This school derives from utilitarianism, wherein an act is only morally right if the positive outcomes outweigh the negative ones (Sinnot-Armstrong, 2006)
S. (Jerry, 2012) The fact that the system is free and open is what has kept the system intact for twenty years
The White House has opposed SOPA on grounds that it is potentially damaging to the American startup industry, and I agree with this. (Phillips, 2012) The SOPA bill may ruin America's credibility as a bastion of freedom around the world, and may not even curb piracy nor regain income for the Hollywood studios pushing for the enacting of SOPA against America's major young corporations such as Facebook Microsoft, and Google
This means that many startups that rely on risky investments from venture capitalists will no longer receive investment they badly need, and therefore the next Facebook or Google could be ended due to the huge restrictions the SOPA act placed on Internet security and privacy. (Schusterman, 2011) If the United States government begins interacting with the Internet in biased ways to put an end to international websites, then European countries have stated that they will separate the current DNS (Domain Name System) that guides the Internet
SOPA will cause average Americans to be fearful of what they post and say, because average American's will not know what computer enthusiasts know. (Temple, 2012) Those who are inclined to reach further into the Internet already realize that SOPA cannot possibly work as intended, because computer hackers and torrent websites already have solutions to the restrictions that SOPA will set into place
org which is shared in a matter of seconds, creating a decentralized source for downloads forever. (Thurana, 2011) The average American, however, will not understand this solution and it is those people that will be put under investigation and who will protest their innocence as they go to jail at the behest of Hollywood
Hollywood argues that it is losing so much money that its business is suffering, but hundreds of millions of dollars are still earned each year by Hollywood studios, and big movies like Avatar created so much money it changed the way people thought about the movies. (Wyatt, 2011) Hollywood has continued to earn record amounts each year, so the extent of suffering it receives due to piracy is debatable
"The practice of pirating may tend to provide an easy way to earn quick profits but for the future development it is deemed as very damaging." (Mowery 1996)
"Patent violation is a term which translates into any illegal practice which involves the usage or selling of any product without the permission of the patent holder who has the proper rights of that product." (Boyle 1997)
All of these above mentioned practices are known to cost tremendously to the firms who produce the original products, much of the pirated objects found today belong in the categories of software, songs, movies, digital equipments, books and so on. "Much of counterfeiting practice is carried out in the developing economies of the world" (Moody 2001) therefore in this paper we have chosen to mainly scrutinize China and assessing its role in this entire scenario
"Much of counterfeiting practice is carried out in the developing economies of the world" (Moody 2001) therefore in this paper we have chosen to mainly scrutinize China and assessing its role in this entire scenario. "Counterfeiting can be combated through the creation of tougher laws" (Proctor 2005)
The total market value of counterfeit and pirated goods being produced in China was estimated to be worth somewhere between twenty two billion and thirty billion dollars in the year 2008." Counterfeiting phenomena is increasing drastically" (Lally 2002)
According to some estimates about two thirds of the fifteen million shoppers per year at the Beijing Silk Street are composed of foreigners and the amount of interest the foreign buyers take in all of this activity is growing very fast since the consumers all across the globe especially in the Western world went through a financial crisis that resulted in severe job losses as well as decrement in their ability of buying. "Counterfeited objects thrives at sales in environments where the common person's ability to buy is weak" (Garnaut 2004)
In China, the counterfeit banknotes are also very common therefore the cashiers operating in any business take a close look at every fifty and hundred Yuan notes which is equivalent to six and twelve dollars respectively. "Duplicating currency is regarded as a much serious crime as compared to duplicating other common commodities" (Ostergard 2003)
Throughout the markets in Shanghai a person can easily get a fake bag of Louis Vuitton for the price of twenty five dollars, jackets of North Face for twenty six dollars, Cartier wallets for fifteen dollars, expensive golf clubs for around thirteen dollars and a tennis racket of Wilson for around ten dollars. "Pirated objects often last very little as compared to the original product" (Bell 2004)