Downloading Movies and TV is not a Crime

Question: Write an essay onDownloading movies and TV is not a crime. Answer: Its not illegal- stated by Jon Lawrence, Executive officer of Electronic Frontiers Alliance. Jons statement is in the context of downloading TV shows and movies especially in Australia. The author Rose Powell in her article, Downloading movies and TV is not a crime illustrates on his statement as evident in the country where almost half a million people are estimated to download movies and TV shows without even paying for it (Powell, 2014). According to the BBC report on the subscription services of piracy, around 13000 Australians attempt to the torrent files before it is launch officially (Gunter DeCamp, 2013). The article deals in illustrating the current legislation and the statistics of the people living in the country relating to the use of the piracy. The author is of the opinion that the words theft and stolen are often related to the movie tormenting conversations and piracy. The piracy has been the major issue of the current digital world where people are just taking advantage of the activities due to the absence of the regulations and laws governing the piracy in the country. According to digital activist, the piracy involves the making of a copy of the materials where the copyright owner are still capable of making the copies and sell the same by themselves and hence, should not be regarded as theft (Boggio Robertson, 2013). Depoorter Van Hiel, (2016) believe that the theft should not be applied in the terms of piracy as the copyright owners are not rest cited to sell their materials in the market. According to Gunter DeCamp (2013), the major ICT issue of the illegal downloading of the shows and movies, as evident in the article is the copyright issues which deals in the protection of the materials, works, arts and documen ts, being copyright of an individual, form the illegal utilization by any individual. In order to protect the piracy and copyright issues, the Government is required to create awareness of the ethical theories and implicate the copyright infringement and legal actions against the individuals who are associated with the illegal downloading of the TV shows and movies form the internet. Just Consequentialism is the class of ethical theories that holds the consequences of the acting on conduct on the individual basis for the judgment about the wrong doings or rightness of the conduct (Burmeister, 2013). From the standpoint of Liebowitz (2013), a morally right act enables in producing a positive and good consequence or outcome. According to an English proverb, the end justifies the means which helps in signifying the importance of the goal, which should be moral such that any method required achieving the same, would be acceptable (Amit Greene, 2012). According to Burmeister (2013), Consequentialism can be contrasted with deontology in which moral duty and rules are the core, which is derived by the wrongness or righteousness of ones conduct from the character of the behavior itself rather than the outcomes of the conduct. Attfield (2014) believes that the Consequentialism should also be contrasted with the virtue ethics, which helps in finding the character of the a gent instead of the virtue of the act itself. However, Chen Schonger (2013) believe that the consequential and deontologist theories could be mutually exclusive. They further postulate that the ethical rights to be considered as the deontology can only be justified only with the reference to the consequences of the associated rights. The Utilitarian theory is another ethical theory that holds the best moral action for the one that maximizes the utility. According to the founder of the utilitarian theory, Jeremy Bentham, the utility can be defined as the various ways that could be related to the well being of the sentient entities (Bentham, 2014). According to Sheng (2012), the concept of utility should be including the quality, quantity of the pleasure of the traditional moral values for achieving a particular outcome. Some of the researcher believes that the utilitarian must choose the act that conforms the general rule for getting the best consequences. Some of the utilitarian are of the belief that the major aspect of the theory is that it allows the lying around for getting the best consequences related to a particular situation (Evans Lee, 2013). The utilitarian can be allowed to choose the act for getting the best consequences. However, some of the rule utilitarian is of the opinion that speaking the truth helps in promoting good to every individual and that should be followed even if lying would be producing the best possible consequences (Schneider, 2014). Morever, such differences among the utilitarian must be holding the general principle that depends on the balancing of the harmful and beneficial consequences of the conduct. The utilitarian theory is the most significant method for moral decision-making process (Conway Gawronski, 2013). Thus, from the discussion of the theories related to the ethical values, the moral decisions should be taking into account for the justice by considering the immediate and less immediate consequences of the actions taken. Given the inconsistencies in summing the benefits and harms of the people, the consequentials ask to look beyond self-interest. The utilitarian ask us to look beyond the self-interest to consider impartially the interest of all person affected by our actions. The piracy has been the major issue of the current digital world where people are not just thinking about the consequences of the crime due to the absence of the regulations and laws governing the piracy in the country. The people are more concerned with doing what they feel like to be happy with the downloading of the otherwise copyright file without paying for the same. Thus, it seems very incumbent from the perspective of the consumers to try to respect the intellectual property which until they are faced wi th the imposing of the unreasonable expanses on them. Refraining these people from accessing and downloading, the material from internet would be a difficult takes until and unless they are made aware of the situation and the penalties involved. References Attfield, R. (2014).Environmental Ethics: An Overview for TheTwenty-First Century. 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