Encryption increase

The RIAA (Recording Industry of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) fought with P2P (peer-to-peer) networks, file sharing like Napster, Kazaa and Morpheus for years in an attempt to prevent users from sharing and downloading pirated songs and movies.

I do not have the facts and figures of the sector's turnover in front of me, but I've seen some references to declining CD sales actually after a dispute caused mainly Public Enemy # 1 - Napster - STOP D. This would be the model, as used personally Napster comply with.

I'm not particularly interested in stealing music from the record company or the artist who created it. However, I am interested, my money's worth. Often, a beautiful song on the radio drives me to buy the CD of the artist, only to discover that it is their only good song. Same for $ 18 I can get a song worth listening to 10 or 12 songs that are undesirable.

By downloading more songs on a service such as Napster or Kazaa, which could make more informed purchasing decisions. Ultimately, I do not buy the CD from the artist or not. In both cases I am the song once my "investigation" was complete.

Of course, there are users who are not like that. I do not know whether the minority or the majority, but of course, some P2P users see it as a way of keeping all the music, movies and software you want without having to pay to acquire. Many streamline the route, as if they were modern Robin Hoods- "this large conglomerate companies make billions anyway and artists do not make much CD sales" is the traditional mantra. This line of thinking ignores the illegal practice, if the record companies are rich or not, and the theft of music artists are nothing-unless they get something in CD sales.

I do not know what they are teaching now, but when I was in high school, the RIAA was not in my class government as part of the legislative branch of government. However, in recent years, the RIAA and MPAA have what I perceive as undue influence on the legislative process, the laws that pursue low and to prosecute P2P over. I have no problem with the RIAA and MPAA get the money that they are entitled to and / or prosecution of individuals who steal from them, but lobbyists and interest groups contempt, and I think you have to give your money and track thieves following the same rules and legal procedures, like the rest of us.

So that's the end of my rant and now we're on the main theme of this article (see it as a very long introduction) move. The success of the RIAA and MPAA to influence the legislative process and unknowingly to improve his desire to pursue recently and prosecution of offenders contributing to Internet security. Since users to search for new and creative ways to avoid detection (and therefore claims) by the RIAA or MPAA, which led to the adoption, to find the encryption.

I do not recommend the use of encryption to support as a means of hiding illegal activity really only help-for those who feel the interests of "national security" (or steal gum pop song) request that the government be allowed, the keys have to all encryption. The more you can show that the encryption encryption system that can not break the government is mainly used by terrorists and illegal file sharing with used for this case.

But on the other side of the coin is that the encryption is generally a good thing. Assuming you do not use it to draw an attack or to hide the download of the last Lord of the Rings movie or Justin Timberlake song, it is usually wise ecnrypt communication to hide from prying (and potentially harmful) sees the eyes. Default e-mail is sent in plain text, if you could, to intercept read news. Be intercepted and read Internet communications. Decrypt and read everything you can do to mess up their communication, so that only the recipient, will help you more in global security.

You can read more about how the actions of the RIAA and their eagerness to spy, to learn and to pursue those with illegal MP3 drives the adoption of encryption by more and more users in this article by Clay Shirky ReliableAnswers.com: Industrial recording unknowingly Drive Encryption adoption.