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Much has changed in the 14 years that this speech was given and it's surprising how only a few people understood the route the internet was heading at that time. Now more then ever piracy is a massive issue with no real way to solve it completely. Now a person can download anthologies of whatever they seek to own off of the internet. Even the people who created the websites to "pirate" this content, are making plans to move into space to avoid government's laws and regulations. But its to late to stop this derailed train. At this point piracy has become too common, were any regulation put on it, someone finds a way to work around it.
chael Eisner speech was to make the United States Congress aware of a problem that has been created due to the "digital era." That problem is piracy of intellectual property and how it has more gravity then what is currently believed by many people. Essentially, Eisner used statistical information such as copy-righted related industries amount to nearly $530 billion, representing 6.3% of the U.S. GDP to show that these industries need to be protected. Eisner also brings up the fact that piracy has always been an issue for these industries and brings up the example of being able to purchase "bootlegged" version of movies on the street. By the end of his speech Eisner also provides ways of preventing piracy in both a defensive and offensive manner. Much has changed in the 14 years that this speech was given and it's surprising how only a few people understood the route the internet was heading at that time. Now more then ever piracy is a massive issue with no real way to solve it completely. Now a person can download anthologies of whatever they seek to own off of the internet. Even the people who created the websites to "pirate" this content, are making plans to move into space to avoid government's laws and regulations. But its to late to stop this derailed train. At this point piracy has become too common, were any regulation put on it, someone finds a way to work around it.