Thank god for copyright, right?

You've probably seen this symbol many times, but what does it mean? Well, this symbol is made to protect (by law) published and not published works. If you see this mark it means (easy said) that you can't present the work as your own. If you do that it means that you're stealing someone else's work. And that is a felony according to the law.


On the internet it seems like copyright has changed its name (according to me) to copyInternet. What I mean by using that name is that when you're surfing online, almost everything is protected by copyright. But that is rarely something one is thinking about. Musicians and their distributors and movie company's fights daily against plagiarism. And we could say that their being too strict about it, and that they should just give up. But it really is their job. That's the way they get paid. I wouldn't like it if someone came and said that my work wasn't that important that I shouldn't get paid.


CopyInternet exists because humans don't think about the illegal consequences of what they are downloading or copying. It doesn't feel like stealing when you are sitting at home doing it. It's stealing when you physically go into a shop to steal a DVD. Maybe if we changed the entire world's homepages to say; Warning, you're now entering the internet, please remember that all of the pictures, documents, movies and music is protected by ©Copyright. If you download or use the information provided by the makers illegally, you will be prosecuted for stealing. Have fun!


So how can we change it? Well, that don't have a easy answer. I think that it's probably too late to teach it to the old ones, but we should have a larger focus on the young ones. The ones that hasn't begun to experience the world of internet yet. Do you have the answer? Cause I really don't.