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//Enter Mike, Ben, Christina Narrator: Imagine that you enter the local music store. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. //Enter Wes Mike: Did you hear YouTube was involved in a one billion dollar lawsuit with Viacom. Stanton a New York Judge noted, "That YouTube was in line with the federal Digital Millennial Copyright Act when it promptly removed copyright videos" that were reported by Viacom. "The decision follows established judicial consensus that online services like YouTube are protected when they work cooperatively with copyright holders to help them manage their rights online". "This is an important victory not just for us, but also for the billions of people around the world who use the Web to communicate and share experiences with each other. Narrator: You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Wes: That awesome! I can keep using YouTube to share with others. Christina: Now listen to this Wes. How about guessing what community, I belong to with this next bit. We started during the "information blitz" illegally downloading and sharing files. We "are believed to make up a large portion of the culprits because we tend to be interested in music, have time to download the files and,

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thanks to local networks, have access to the high-speed Internet connections that make downloading music and movie files faster. Wes: Are you a pirate. Avast Yee Landlover! Christina: Well yes, however I was looking for a college student, and because I am a student using university networks "college officials: fear of being caught between two laws. One law requires them to respond to subpoenas; another prevents them from releasing information about student activities." Wes: So that is why school networks are slow and spotty at times. They took the responsibility to protect the networks and my information. Ben: What about social media surely it has "helped spread piracy in some respects, but it's also arguable that social media may hold the key to quelling the piracy trend. By streaming content to users from the source, some companies have found ways to despite piracy." Clearly, piracy is still a problem, but is social media a solution to the problem, or is it an enabler of piracy? Narrator: Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress. //Wes Exits Stage