Blog#2 Tim O' Reilly

Tim O' Reilly is out to change the world. Online Distribution is his main concern. He wants to provide publishers a competitive alternative way to help control their content that is being published online. People want convenience and they want it fast and easy to use. In the digital home of 2013 you will be able to access content for free. This is convenience, you will be able to download what you want whenever you want for free. But it will be safe to run on your computer and you wont be contributing to illegal software only safe programs. Hulu is a working site that already is in use for on demand. This site lets you download movies for free and watch them but you download them at a safe risk not illegally. With technology being downloaded for free we know that it is a wonderful thing but people take matters into their own hands and begin to steal downloaded material illegally. Piracy is risky and wrong. It is downloading from (P2P) peer to peer sites unwillingly not knowing what effect the software will do to your PC or notebook/laptop. These illegal downloads cause your computer to be at high risk.  You get viruses that will wipe out your PC all together so you will have to repair it. Warranties that programs have you wont get and certain updates to help the software run faster and smoother wont be available to you.  

Studies have been researched about this problem. Studying people that not only make up these sites or download illegal material studies prove to show these are criminals and gang affiliated people who are making online unsafe. These types of people want to cover up their drug trade by making a fake store online selling pirated programs. These is hurting our economy because in other countries this type of counterfeiting is considered a victimless crime.Other countries are losing money to piracy and losing it fast. The UK has 27% of software being used that is pirated.

People do not release that they are sharing illegal software because they want to better themselves and have less worry about buying a software or program they want for numerous amounts of money. If they want it they will find a way to get what they want for free. This operation is not disappearing it's getting worse which means people that want to download illegal material onto their PC are contributing to illegal drug trades across the world. What people don't know is how intense and illegal this problem is. Their is a online guide to help people be more aware of the internet, what to look out for, and help navigate through the internet. When you buy from these websites the people on the receiving end take your money and run to simply download more illegal software and contribute back into the black market. This is a crime that is hurting the online industry. It is taking fun away from kids to the point where there are parental controls posted securing them to only certain websites, it is blinding people that are new to the internet and conning them to buy illegally not knowingly, college students that need certain softwares and want them for cheap get captured like the rest of the people. A guide to online buying is a helpful and smart way to help you navigate your way around the illegal sites. It shows you more opportunities that show you shortcuts you never knew existed. How does something so simple turn into a gang affiliated dark under world? Simple, in this dark world people need to be more aware that once you start navigating through the internet you happen to find yourself lost in pages of pages of material. This makes you more vulnerable then ever because wether you lost your place and your mind wondered off topic this makes you fall across websites that you haven't seen before so that puts you at high risk. People that get lost in pages and search the internet a lot usually are set out to buy a product and want to know the best cheapest alternative website that provides them to what they are looking for. That makes you their target and buy the time you are done making your purchase you haven't realized that you have already been lured into their steal. 

Piracy is illegal and unsafe. People should be more cautious of how they navigate their way through the web. People like myself fall victim to having a wondering eye but we all have to be careful for what we wish for a figurative speech that we shouldn't take so lightly anymore. Help you help yourself be more aware to what your doing and how your contributing to your economy.