The long-lasting battle against piracy

Our topic this week is about the intellectual property. First let me show you a little piece of video:

This video mainly talk about how we transform others' work into our digital story. According to this Thomas Jefferson, we have to build our work on the basis of others' work. This is how our culture grows. However, we still have to give credits to the original producer of the material, so they could be inspired and provide more good stuff for us.

I have no idea about intellectual property tort in the US. In China, it is quite a problem. To be honest, it is still a serious social problem. It is so hard to control because most people are actually benefiting from it. Even though, piracy is making our life easier, it is not a warrant for harming those people who created the resource.

Imaging you are a designer and your work is to create resource material for website designs. You worked late into the midnight to bring your idea into life. It is like your child because it is you who witness the whole creating process, from a piece of blanket paper into a fascinating image. It is art, it is your star. You love it so much, as you are so frustrated when you see it appears on a website you have never known. How does it get there, you have no idea. The only feeling left for you is that one part of you is getting peeled from your body. Your mind is robbed and all that night of work seems vain. How would you bestir yourself, get over this and design again? Impossible.

This is why we need to admire the hard work of others. One might say, the fact that I would choose his work is showing respects. This is not enough. Do remember, the people who bring you the good resource are making a living on it. Piracy has no difference than murdering. You will find your own hand on the handle of the knife if you download and use illegal resource. Even if there are hundreds of thousands of hands on it, it cannot deny the fact that you are one of them.

Expect of the bad things happening on the Internet, there still some good signs. There are new websites like www.nipic.com and www.pixiv.net which makes sharing of pictures more professional and only under notification. Live-streaming video websites also pay more attention to copyrights. I believe there is one sentence that we cannot be more familiar with: Sorry, this video can only be streamed within Mainland China, which makes me extremely homesick:(

After all, I am quite proud of what we have done for the long-lasting battle against piracy.