Digital Law Powerpoint
- 1. DIGITAL LAW LYDIA NEAT & DAIZIA RUDOLPH
- 2. WHAT IS DIGITAL LAW?? • The legal rights and restrictions governing technology use. • Some of the online problems that Digital Law takes care of are theft, plagiarism, and cyber bullying. • The four main problems that Digital Law prevents are copyright, privacy, ethical issues, and piracy. • Digital Law also makes sure that all web sites abide by certain laws that have been established.
- 3. TYPES OF VIOLATIONS • Illegal Fire Sharing • Pirating Software • Creating Viruses • Hacking • Identity theft • Copyright Infringement
- 4. ILLEGAL FIRE SHOOTING • The sharing of files between people using computers connected to the internet. • covers both the making available of the file (uploading), for instance on a file sharing service. • Exa. YouTube to MP3 Website, RIAA, File Sharing, & Downloading copyrighted music
- 5. PIRATING SOFTWARE • When software which has been duplicated and distributed without authorization. • Since the 1700s, people have been referring to instances of copyright infringement as piracy. • An example being someone who makes multiple copies of a program and sells the copies.
- 6. CREATING VIRUSES • A software program capable of reproducing itself and of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer. • A computer virus might corrupt or delete data on your computer, use your email program to spread itself to other computers, or even erase everything on your hard disk. • Exa. Macro Viruses, Memory Resident Viruses, Overwrite Viruses, etc.
- 7. HACKING • Unauthorized use of computer and network resources. • Hacking is the act of modifying computer hardware or software, in order to cause damage to sensitive data or to simply steal confidential information. • Hackers often target home and office computers that are connected to the Internet.
- 8. IDENTITY THEFT • When someone pretends to be someone else in order to access their personal information in order to obtain resources or benefits. • Exa. Social security number, credit card number,
- 9. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT • The act of violating any of a copyright's exclusive rights given to them by the federal Copyright Act. • The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a publisher or other business to whom copyright has been assigned. • Motives for copyrighting: Pricing, Unavailability, Usefulness, Anonymity.
- 10. IF YOU VIOLATE DIGITAL LAWS • Many people get kicked off of web sites because they are caught by the "Cyber Police.“ • In some cases people get caught doing other forms of digital crime such as pirating movies and plagiarism. • If you are caught committing these crimes, depending on how bad the crime is, you may face some jail time.