![]() ![]() First, piracy concerns in the dial-up Internet era mostly centred around the sharing of songs in the MP3 format or books in the PDF format, where files were no larger than a few megabytes. Today, nearly 25 years later, the online piracy environment has changed in at least four major ways compared to the early dial-up Internet era, owing to faster and cheaper broadband connection speeds. 3 The same year, in one of the earliest law review articles on the subject, Jane Ginsberg advanced a similar view. 2 The report’s main recommendations were that traditional rights of distribution and performance be widened to include the digital transmission of works. The report acknowledged that the growth of the Internet could “upset the balance” between copyright owners and users but felt that the challenge could be addressed by “no more than minor clarification and limited amendment” to existing copyright legislation. For instance, hundreds of channels of “television” programming, thousands of musical recordings, and literally millions of “magazines” and “books” can be made available to homes and businesses across the United States and around the world. It can increase access to a greater amount and variety of information and entertainment resources that can be delivered quickly and economically from and to virtually anywhere in the world in the blink of an eye. The NII has tremendous potential to improve and enhance our lives. As a part of this initiative, a working group submitted a report, in 1995, discussing the impact of the Internet (then in its infancy) on copyright law. The first Clinton administration-at the initiative of Vice President Al Gore-formed the Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF), to articulate the US government’s vision for the so-called National Information Infrastructure (NII). ![]() Legal concerns regarding online copyright infringement date back to the first half of the 1990s, when even dial-up Internet was at a nascent stage. ![]()
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