Copyright

The RIAA, Recording Industry Assn of America, MPAA, Motion Picture Association, ESA, Entertainment Software Association, are interested in campus based file sharing; Lamar Smith owns this district and there is a disproportionately interest on Trinity University and TU gets takedown notices from all three of these firms. These firms should know that we are college students and most of us do not want to spend money buying CDs or paying for the music that we download from internet or from itunes every single day, so most of the people choose to download music using programs like kazaa, limewire, ares. These programs do not care about copyrights or pay dues to the copyright owners, which basically make them illegal. On the other hand, those companies which send takedown notices to Trinity University completely have all the rights to do so because they do not want their author’s work not to get paid by us, the consumers; that’s how they make profit; however, I, like every other Trinity student do not want to pay for the music that I download from internet.