copyrights, patents and trademarks

I know that trough the ages there have been may case involving porn companies, and people that were trying to distribute the copyrighted goods in order to make money. But why do people still try to do it? The property is not theirs and they should know that they couldn’t distribute it. The best example of this would have to be the case of Sam Palipo who was from California. This man was warned 3 times before The Playboy Company decided to take this man to court, and they only did it to protect the copyright. Any ways the man was found to be guilty of infringement and had to pay $3.3 million, I still think that the number was a little high, but that's what he get for this crime. What I am trying to say is that there is not other form of protecting your goods, and people should follow the law, not just try to make some quick cash. Another case that I want to bring up within the blog while I am speaking on the issue of copyrights, patents and trademarks is the Sony Playstation case. This case has been resolved, and it has been all over the Internet. This case is over the Sony Dual Shock controllers, which were introduced in 1998. A company came out of the abyss to challenge Sony that they already had the patent on the item, and that Sony had stole the idea from them to make it their own. Anyway the results from the case were that Sony had to remove all of their dual shock controllers from the shelves, place a recall on all of the items, and they also had to remove a significant amount of games from the shelves due to the dual shock being of use in the game. Sony will also have to give the company somewhere in the area of 30 million a year for some amount of time. Now with the bad luck for Sony the Playstation 3 may not even come out by next Christmas, which is the release date for it. You these laws aren’t only to protect the larger companies from these infringements, but it is also in effect to help the smaller companies keep what is rightfully theirs.