The Dreaded Research Paper

My thesis statement is designed to answer whether the US copy right law in protecting illegal music downloading and sharing over the internet is making effective actions or does it lacks bold actions to solve the problem, which is now becoming extensive. While analyzing the problem of internet piracy, I am working in measuring its effect from all perspectives- that is the hierarchical loss incurred. Such as how much is exactly the recording companies are losing in the past year, how is it affecting the promoters, the writers and the musicians in terms of cost, time, and the production of quality work. For all these parameters I am working on the bench mark to see its effect. I am also working how the extent of the problem is affecting the nation’s economy by depriving the revenues fetched to the GDP. These points are very important since they determine the importance of the copyright in mitigating such a problem. Further I am looking into the acts and the reforms in the perspective of how far they hinder the problem at hand. In supporting this idea I have looked some of the measurements taken to circumvent antipiracy mechanisms. While working on this I have found that there is an argument on the importance of copyright law. One side of the argument lie upon, since record companies are the profit makers who uses the traditional way of disseminating music they are the ones protected by the law, not musicians. Therefore it is better to use digital technology and internet selling, in order to benefit musicians; music recording companies are no more value than bureaucracy and monopoly of profit making brought by others effort. Moreover the law doesn’t always progress with the advancement of technology and the terminologies used in the law either lacks wholeness or lead to misinterpretation on a relative form.  On the other side of the argument music recording companies are the ones that are investing every bit of cost for the quality of the production, wide dissemination (internationally), promotion and having the capacity of paying all the costs for the projects, therefore they should be protected. Further copyright law has also a big protection for digitally shared materials over the internet. Of course it is a hectic work in bringing up a common ground of these ideas. However I am looking extensively to see which one out weights the other. Since the topic is mostly dealing on copyright law, the literatures I am finding are not easily understandable for someone who doesn’t have legal background like me. The good thing on the process I am learning a lot, which is why I appreciate working on this topic. I hope the rationale of the paper is coming at the end which definitely will answer my proposed thesis. The paper will also hold some recommendations which will be drawn from the review of the literatures and the gaps I have seen in those literatures.