Which protctions work better for protecting digital intellectual property: copyright laws or technology-based protections? Why?
Digital intellectual property is more difficult to protect than other properties. It is easy to copy or use on the internet. Digital information is can be broken down to 0's and 1's, so anyone can make an exact copy with the right information. Therefore, there are strict copyright laws and technology-based protections, but both factors cannot effectively protect digital intellectual information. Copyright laws and technology-based protections have some problems in protecting the property.
Copyright laws are useful for creators hold their digital intellectual property on their hands. According to the passage, you cannot keep or put digital information property in your pocket and other people can easy to copy it becuase it saved in computer.However, it is hard to judge or punish criminals in other countries, because every country has different laws. Even though the creator sues the person who copied or used the digital intellectual property without permission, the creator is forced to comply with the decidion that person's country decides. In addition, copyright laws cannot arrest everyone who downloads or uploads intellectual properties. There are too many people downloading or uploading movies, music, or books.
Technology-based protections can stop people who try to use others' intellectual property without consent. However, users are getting smarter and smarter. Therefore, they know how to break technology-based protections. Even though people do not know how circumvent the restrictions, they can find information on the internet. It means technology-based protection is easy to break.
Accordingly, our group decided both factors are not efficient, but technology-based protections would work slightley better than stricter copyright laws based on the points mentioned above that it is working everywhere that has internet and it can stop the first try.