Essays on Copyright infringement

A piece from the Associated Press appeared in this year’s February 8th issue of TIME Magazine reporting that the Microsoft Corporation and its 80 person strong anti-piracy team, with the assistance of U. S. Customs officers and various Chinese officials had recently taken down a major Taiwan-based software piracy ring. The retail value of the…

Napster is an online trading program that allows users to look into another persons hard-drive in order to trade music. “Napster and similar software provides users with a method of searching thousands of other users computers to share thousands of high quality music, music that is stored in the compressed .mp3 format.”(Internet). Music of the…

James Moor – Policy Vacuum Computer technology brought upon many unexpected ethical, social and political issues. Society has yet to learn a lot about how to deal with technology and its after-effects on ethical principles. When discussing about ethics, we need to go over the importance of computers and be able to answer question like:…

What is the perfect balance between freedom and order? Not only is it a question American society has been asking itself since its creation but also a question humanity has yet to answer. In all likelihood such a perfect balance will never be achieved but doesn’t mean people won’t strive for such perfection. Before delving…

As much as $40 billion are lost every year due to flourishing computer crimes. In 1993 alone, Internet, the world wide system of computer networks, was swindled out of approximately $2 billion, and about $50 million were stolen from various companies such as GTE Corp., AT&T, Bell Atlantic and MCI ( Meyer and Underwood 45)….

A purchase order (POP) is a written document issued by the seller to the buyer. The purpose of the purchase order is to communicate product price, quantities and the agreed price for the service. Purchase order is an internal piece of information that comes from the financial department of Sunburst’s. On screen – an example…

Academic Integrity in Cultural Context In a person does own his/her original words or ideas and have privileges pertaining to those words or ideas as they are regarded as the person’s intellectual property. The Copyright act (1999) seeks to protect the author and any infringement on the author’s rights is punishable by fine or even…

A. 1. Give an outline of the attitudes to copyright violation and illegal downloading as presented in texts 1 and 3. Texts 1 and 3 represent two opposing attitudes to copyright violation and illegal downloading in today’s technologic world. In text 1, “It’s Evolution, Stupid”, by co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, Sunde displays…

Why Protecting Intellectual Property Rights are Important for Creating Wealth Prepared By: Tony Lyall Why Protecting Intellectual Property Rights are Important for Creating Wealth What is intellectual property? The World Intellectual Property Organization defines intellectual property as the “creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images and designs used in…

* 1. Pull offing Internet Misuse Inside the Company* 2. It is of import to larn how to forestall abuse of your company’s engineering resources and how to protect your concern from legal liability for employee abuse of electronic mail. web logs and the Internet. Pull offing Internet Misuse Introduction * 3. More than 25…