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(Robert) Curtis Lambert
English 101
Professor Bolton
25 July, 2012
Research Paper OUTLINE Addendum to Handwritten Sheet for Outline:
1. The topic of my essay is Media Piracy and the inability of our judicial system to come to any
agreement on what, in today’s digital world, clearly defines stealing of illegally downloaded
material. My intent is to clarify why this is a pressing issue and needs to be addressed
expeditiously.
2. The naysayer will be the basis for my paper: Lawernce Lessig’s essay, “Some Like it Hot.” He
spends the majority of the essay talking out of both sides of his mouth and it is my intention to
offer a concise definition of media piracy through a counter-argument with no double-talk.
3. The precedent for media piracy laws have been set since before the turn of the 20th century,
and although the type of media continues to develop and progress at a rate beyond our ability to
keep up, the basic statute of the law has not changed: if one duplicates and/or sells or uses
someone else’s media, in any form, without their written or express permission, then they are
breaking the law.
4. Primarily causation: I define what piracy of media is, and why we find ourselves today
debating the root definition.
5. Cause and effect requires you to determine the cause for media piracy in the entertainment
industry, and then to offer several adverse effects this issue is having on the industry and artists
associated with piracy.

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6 a. BODY paragraph 1: The entertainment industry has been working diligently to reduce
copyright infringement since its inception before the turn of the 20th Century.
This statement above corresponds directly with my thesis.
6 b. Hollywood was founded on two production studios refusal to pay royalties to Thomas
Edison, who owned the rights to the inventions the film industry was utilizing at the time.
AND
Anyone with a computer can now have access to any copyrighted works via the Internet.
Research has proven that there are billions of dollars in revenue that is lost around the globe,
directly linked to illegal downloads.
6 c. The LOGOS should appeal to the reader. We should not want to repeat history, as we have
done time and again, on this issue, since the time of Thomas Edison, and before.
6 d. John Gantz and Jack B. Rochester for Pirates of the Digital Millennium : How the
Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World
Economy, shows that since 2004 the music industry has lost over four billion dollars annually
worldwide and the movie industry has lost over three billion dollars annually in the United States
alone, all due directly to illegal internet downloading of pirated media.
This sentence above supports my claim that we are robbing artists of monies due them by
our apathetic attitudes toward this issue in the courts.
7 a. BODY paragraph 2: While testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation, February 28, 2002, Jack Valenti, President and CEO, Motion Picture
Association of America [MPAA] had this to say:
At this precise moment…works [movies] are in ever multiplying numbers swarming
illegally throughout the so-called file sharing sites (a more accurate description would be

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“file-stealing” sites)…There is one truth that sums up the urgency of this request to
Congress…if you cannot protect what you own you don’t own anything. (1)
I use the statement above, which correlates with my thesis, as well as my research article, to
support my claim that there is a need for attention to the time factor that has always plagued
media piracy in developing technology.
7 b. Mr. Valenti eloquently states what most of the entertainment industry feels is the root of
their struggle with the current copyright laws: what do these artists actually own if they have no
control over who has access to it?
AND
Gantz and Rochester go on to address the question and to clearly define in each medium what
piracy is, or at the very least, what it should be. They list several statements as being officially on
record in the dispute to determine fair ownership of copyrighted property:
7 c. The quote from 7 a. above will be my use of PATHOS. I feel that Mr. Valenti’s statement
rings true to most people’s ears when discussing ownership and theft in those basic terms.
7 d. My reference above comes directly from research compiled by John Gantz and Jack B.
Rochester for Pirates of the Digital Millennium : How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage
Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy.
8 a. BODY paragraph 3: The struggle society continues to have with the term media piracy is the
connotation it evokes of one being a thief.
8 b. Most college students would never consider plagiarizing a work for an essay or research
paper, any more than they would rob a store or break the honor code at their University by
cheating on their final exams. On the other hand, they seem to have no issue downloading and

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sharing music through a Peer-2-Peer file sharing network, even though most would admit that
they know it is wrong, they just don’t see it as illegal, and therein lays the problem.
AND
The current copyright laws are so muddled and unclear even Judges struggle to effectively
interpret the statutes.
8 c. ETHOS is the choice for this body paragraph: it is important for the reader to know my
research has been compiled form a variety of sources, and by this point they will have seen 4
sources cited from a variety of experts in different fields.
8 d. In Content Protection in the Digital Age: The Broadcast Flag, High-Definition Radio, and
the Analog Hole , February 22, 2005 the Committee heard testimony via a written statement
from Commissioners Copps and Adelstein dissenting on the Commission’s recommendation due,
in part, “…because the [regulations did] not preclude the use for content…already in the public
domain…and because the criteria adopt[ed] for accepting digital content protection technologies
fail to address…the impact…on personal privacy” (99).
I wanted to use official documented transcripts from U.S. Senate hearings to lend
credibility and an element of trust, that the government is, in fact, dragging their feet on this
issue.
9 a. BODY paragraph 4, The vast majority of the media that is duplicated is done legally and the
artists whose work is being recorded, in any fashion, is compensated according to the law.
9 b. Although it has become increasingly difficult to monitor and protect the rights of artists in
the media industry, due largely to the fact that digital technology changes and advances at
lightning speed in today’s market, it is not altogether impossible to keep a watchful eye.
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The claim that piracy of developing media technology is not new rests upon the
questionable assumption that there is always going to be a certain element in society that does
not adhere to these seemingly random piracy laws, and we need to be patient, while giving the
courts and the laws the opportunity to catch up.
9 c. There are equal amounts of logos and ethos here, both based on factual information that
supports my argument.
9 d. There is no cited research in this paragraph; all of this section is paraphrased from
information gleaned from a variety of sources.
10 a. Counterargument Paragraph: When it comes to the topic of media piracy, most of us will
readily agree that taking someone else’s property without their permission is stealing.
10 b. The sentence clearly states a moral directive: most of us will readily agree that taking
someone else’s property without their permission is stealing. This is pretty straight-forward and
leaves no room for debate. Stealing is stealing. Period.
10 c. I will present, through a number of quotes and references, that the laws on media piracy are
cloudy, at best, and the youth culture of today sees the proliferation of P-2-P file sharing as
“wrong” (maybe!), but not illegal.
10 d. I will concede primarily on the basis that public domain, and legal downloads, muddle the
legal waters of what is and is not media piracy.
10 e. I will concede primarily on the basis that public domain, and legal downloads, muddle the
legal waters of what is and is not media piracy.
10 f. Although this outline requires me to state where my counterargument will appear, in all
honesty it [counterargument] is the basis of my entire research paper; therefore, this same
argument, rephrased, appears throughout my paper.

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11 a. Restated Thesis: The original basis of the law is very clear and leaves no room for
error on this subject. True, the laws have to evolve and adapt as the mediums change, but the
rudimentary basis of the original piracy laws are still applicable: artists own the works they have
created and we owe them monetary compensation when we use their said work, even if we don’t
profit from it ourselves. Anything less is stealing.
11 b. The real struggle the entertainment industry has with this approach has more to do with the
negligible attitude of law makers than it does with the artist’s willingness to allow the laws to be
amended and updated. The original basis of the law is very clear and leaves no room for error on
this subject.