Deck 5: Virtual Pirates

Question 1

Copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and trademarks are best classified as forms of _______________.?

A) physical property
B) intellectual property
C) personal property
D) governmental property

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In terms of scope and scale, this commercial sector reports the largest financial losses to piracy at $52.24 billion according to 2016 data.?

A) Music industry
B) Book publishing
C) Motion pictures
D) Computer software

Answer 2

D

Question 3

This website generated controversy by hosting a free-to-access repository of scholarly publications.?

A) Research Now
B) Sci-Hub
C) CyberScholar
D) Elsevier

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What is a major reason peer-to-peer file-sharing remains extraordinarily resilient to shutdown attempts?

A) Laws pertaining to copyright infringement are disproportionately applied to digital piracy
B) Software developers are unconcerned with peer-to-peer file-sharing
C) The decentralized and fragmented nature of the Internet make it difficult
D) Federal agencies are largely unaware of the phenomena of file-sharing

Question 5

What is the BSA's "No Piracy" program?

A) A program where persons can get paid to turn over co-workers using unauthorized copies of software
B) A program where anti-piracy speakers give educational seminars to primary and secondary schools
C) A program where netizens can subscribe to weekly news of piracy lawsuits across the globe
D) A program were users can offer and gift software programs to those who may not be able to afford it

Question 6

This privacy-enhancing measure allows users to hide their IP addresses by rerouting network traffic, thereby bypassing attempts by regulatory bodies to block access to websites hosting or indexing pirated content.?

A) Bootstrapping
B) Virtual private networks
C) Jailbreaking
D) Subnet masking

Question 7

In the early 2000s, the UK released a series of anti-piracy ads featuring a singing troubadour slandering a man for engaging in activities like buying counterfeit goods and downloading pirated movies, dubbing the man _______________.?

A) 'Pirate Pete'
B) 'Illicit Irvine'
C) 'The Copyright Crusader'
D) 'Knock-Off Nigel'

Question 8

The UK introduced _______________ that required ISPs to send warning letters to customers who had been identified of breaching copyright.?

A) The Stop Online Piracy Act
B) The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property
C) The Digital Economy Act
D) The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act

Question 9

The following are all factors that have possibly contributed toward the low prosecutions of piracy except for _______________.?

A) the absolute rarity of piracy (less than 1% of all cybercrimes)
B) the lack of public concern and political emphasis on harm
C) the difficulties in policing and intelligence gathering
D) the reluctance of public prosecutors to act

Question 10

All of the following pieces of legislation deals, in some capacity, with piracy except for _______________.?

A) CPPA
B) DMCA
C) TRIPS
D) ACTA

Question 11

Created in the late 1990s, the _______________ was crafted to address copyright issues in the age of the Internet by providing legal protections for copy-protection mechanisms.?

A) Copyright Act
B) Digital Millennium Copyright Act
C) Technological Protection Act
D) Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Question 12

According to recent estimates, 80 per cent of all music downloaders consumer music legally.?

Question 13

_______________ was arrested for illegally downloading troves of academic journal articles from JSTOR at MIT. He was charged with multiple crimes resulting in the potential for millions in fines and 35 years in prison. He subsequently committed suicide.?

A) Mark Knopfler
B) Warren Ellis
C) Chelsea Manning
D) Aaron Swartz

Question 14

Which organization was implicated in one of the earliest cases of software piracy?

A) Masters of Deception
B) Homebrew Computer Club
C) Cult of the Dead Cow
D) The Pirate Bay

Question 15

Shawn Fanning developed this peer-to-peer service in 1999 which lead to a massive increase in illegal music downloads.?

A) eMule
B) BitTorrent
C) Napster
D) Bearshare

Question 16

In 2001, Bram Cohen released this decentralized protocol for peer-to-peer filesharing that was extraordinarily resilient to shutdown attempts.?

A) eMule
B) BitTorrent
C) Napster
D) Bearshare

Question 17

_______________ is a type of technology used to prevent illegal copying of digital files.?

A) Digital rights management
B) Copy-stop protection
C) Bittorrent
D) Digital rights security

Question 18

In 2013, Electronic Arts caused controversy after their "always-on" copy-protection mechanisms locked legitimate users out of this game.?

A) Gears of War
B) Battlefield 4
C) Railroad Tycoon
D) SimCity

Question 19

_______________ is the process of converting streaming data into files which can be stored locally and is an increasingly popular strategy for piracy.?

A) BitTorrent
B) Stream ripping
C) Stream siphoning
D) Stream saving

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT a motivation for piracy as described in the textbook.?

A) Sampling
B) Sharing is caring
C) Desire to avoid going to "brick-and-mortar" stores and being in public
D) Rebellion/resistance

Question 21

Despite issues surrounding the measurement of cybercrime generally, piracy statistics are surprisingly accurate and trustworthy.?