In general terms authorship is an explicit way of assigning responsibility and giving credit for a creative work. The two are linked. Authorship practices should be judged by how honestly they reflect actual contributions to the final product.
Authorship is important to the reputation, academic promotion, and grant support of the individuals involved as well as to the strength and reputation of the institution they are involved in.
It is nearly impossible to protect an authorship completely. There is always a possibility to insert the word “copyright” or the copyright symbol.
This can be easily erased using Adobe Photoshop or any other kind of software.
The only case scenario is if the text/symbol is in a large scale and placed across the whole entire work. At this point, the authorship might be contained but the work loses its visual effect as the composition is heavily damaged. The author needs to make a decision when showing his/her work to the audience.
Also the person who’s stole that work can easily claim it as his own and create a copyright for that particular work and everyone will think that that’s his own work.
The same applies for computer software/games and movies. People can easily download from torrent nowadays. Especially now that broadband speeds are so fast compared to before when people had dial-up.
It is not difficult to download a 5-20 GB software, game, etc from the internet and then install it with no problem. It only takes a few hours for that depending on the speed of your internet connection.
Unfortunately piracy can't be completely stopped. Even if companies implement serial numbers or other DRM protection system, hackers can always make a crack to disable that protection. That way they get the full software for free.
ISPs can't quite track who pirates and who doesn't because piracy as a whole is massive! This in a way is a problem.
They would also lose customers as even blocking their internet connection is not a solution.
Since still there are people who will leave their ISPs and switch to another ISP. Although the next ISP provider may try and block their internet connection too there would be a limit to that.
ISPs still get profit from people paying money to use their internet service.
As American musician Gary Wright once said "The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing."
He is right and indeed that's the case today, not just with music, this is something that happens with all sectors of the world of entertainment.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy [accessed 12/11/10]
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/piracy.html [accessed 28/11/10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Wright [accessed 28/11/10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement_of_software [accessed 13/11/10]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/nov/29/isps-must-help-combat-piracy [accessed 14/11/10]
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