Current Event: Verizon Wireless enforcing penalties for copyright infringement.
See the whole article here:
As cell phones integrate with the Web, ISPs and phone companies are making agreements to rescind the access of customers who engage in file sharing of copyrighted material. Sharing files illegally is a neighborly but dishonest practice that's been around since before the Internet's public debut in 1993. Back then, piracy of intellectual property was most prevalent in home videos and computer games (LAN party? Don't mind if I do!). Since internet access is now a standard feature in most consumer mobile electronics, file sharing is ever more ubiquitous. Perhaps because the means to download and keep content illegally is identical to simply browsing the internet, many people don't feel they are stealing. It is certainly a much less intense experience than shoplifting or taking a newspaper without paying for it (Edgely). But each time we do that, it's one less unit of revenue an artist worked for, but didn't receive.
Bishop Richard C. Edgely's talk: http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,49-1-646-26,00.html
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