Blog 3

On Wikipedia I searched the phrases/terms "internet piracy," "p2p software," and "Napster."

The first one brought me to a section on copyright infringement that can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_piracy

Things that are missing in this post would be views from countries that do allow copyright infringement, like Canada and most of Europe. Europe is mentioned twice in the entry while the U.S. is mentioned or referenced in almost every sentence. The biggest part missing from this entry would be the viewpoint of online piracy not destroying media, but actually helping to garner interest in it. There are sections titled "Comparison to Theft" but there are none titled "Comparison to Promotion" because that viewpoint is lacking.

My p2p software search eventually took me to an entry on the p2p service in general which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer

The major thing I think that can be added to this entry is the expansion of their "anonymity" section which currently only has one bullet point. A major problem for the U.S. government with online piracy is that despite their ability to collect ISPs, the system is still greatly anonymous. I could add information about what a peer to peer interaction would look like to an outside source (two isolated ISPs with no identity sharing a file for several minutes) and how it is so hard to track down the people who use p2p software.

The last search was to find out some information on Napster, which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster

This entry is greatly lacking on historical impact. The hsitory given is brief and I feel that they skip over why Napster was such a big deal, it began the p2p craze and changed the way we view the internet. An article was just published in The Santa Clara that said media companies declare 80% of internet traffic is illegal piracy, a trend that Napster greatly started. I could add a section on the historical impact of the Npaster service in the present day.