This report emphasizes on copyright violations committed by the Peer to Peer file sharing Internet Protocol Address Providers (IPAP). As we are all aware, the basic aim of Copyright is to protect and promote creativity. It is incredibly valuable to the individuals and organizations as it aims towards ensuring that the copyright owner will be the sole beneficiary of any financial compensation arising from the creative work.
Megaupload, a peer to peer file sharing website, allowed a user to store data in their servers, and this data could be accessed and downloaded by all the other members of the website. This website created so much panic among the copyright owners that the US Federal was forced to trace the origin of the website, and later convince and guide the New Zealand government to bust the website owners. The operation was carried out in such a way, as to set an example for other similar websites operating illegally. Mr. Kim Dotcom was finally arrested and tried under the special amendments made to the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994, for File sharing websites.
4shared is another similar website, which is still functional, but currently, operates under a strict scanner of the U.S. copyright enforcement. The website attracted a massive number of takedown requests from the copyright owners. Under the huge pressure of the Copyright enforcement bodies, the website did take strict action on the complaints it received from the copyright owners, but it has lost much of its popularity among the file-sharing community.
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