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Software Piracy Computer Crime
548 wordsSoftware Piracy is the most common computer crime, it is the illegal coping of software. People wouldn't think of shoplifting software from a retail store, but don't think twice about going home and making several illegal copies of the same software and this is true because I myself am guilty of this. The major problem is not people going out and buying the software then making copies for everyone, it's the websites that cater to pirating software, that really cause the problem. On anyone one of...
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Golden Age Merchant Ships
1,039 wordsPiracy is usually determined as a seizure of property (ship, airplane or software) that holds no commission from the owner (Piracy 1). It is mostly linked to the dirty, bearded men that sailed the seven seas and robed merchant ships or ships that carried a valuable cargo. This however, was not the case in the late eighties and is definitely not the case today in the nineties. Now software pirates copy software without the permission of the company for their own personal benefits. Since piracy in...
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Market For Personal Computers In Germany
2,501 words... percent in 1997. While Germany will always be a leader in industry the country is making a move in a different direction now. Again with the year 2000 in mind the German is calling for an initiative named "Germany 21. " The focus of this push is for Germany to "catch-up" in the areas of communications, and information and technology (IT). They will be taking measures to coordinate the framework for the information society, widely increase accessibility to the Internet, and create programs to...
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Software Piracy Software Companies
480 wordsComputer Piracy is when software gets copied without permission from the copyright holder. This means that the copyright holder, usually the one who makes the software, will not get any reward for his / hers product. It is illegal to infringe the copyright law and can result in imprisonment and / or fines. There are five types of software piracy. These include: Softlifting: Then is when somebody purchases a single licensed copy of the software and loads it on several computers, contrary to the l...
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Criminal Penalties Software Industry
2,001 wordsIn 1996 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $ 15. 2 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $ 5. 1 billion in the North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses, due to software crime, as high as $ 4. 7 trillion. On the next page is a regional breakdown of software piracy losses for 1994. Estimates show that over 40 percent of North American software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software indust...
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Term Papers Pirated Software
1,228 wordsNo one denies that the Internet is the most useful tool for research, business, and education, yet the Internet is the subject of a topic that is as controversial as the legalities of abortion or homosexual rights: ethics and the Internet. Many racy, illegal, and controversial materials are available on the Internet such as pornography and pirated software; on the other hand, many educational tools are on-line as well. This brings a need for a case of ethics in the Internet realm. A definition o...
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Sexually Explicit Internet Pornography
1,252 words... t the do help[s] people (Cybercheats). Some ivy league colleges take the stance that none of their students plagiarize papers, that there has never been any trouble with that kind of cheating, and that their school is too respectable for that kind of action and the students understand that. On the other hand, students interviewed from colleges such as Harvard attest that they have used plagiarized material before because it was easy to attain and the classes were only being taken, as they we...
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Merriam Websters Collegiate Websters Collegiate Dictionary
1,516 wordsMerriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary defines piracy as, an act of robbery on the high seas or an act resembling such robbery (885). From this we can define software piracy as an act of robbery on the information superhighway. Many people do not see it as such. Even though the average person would never consider going into a convenience store and stealing a stick of gum, many have no qualms about stealing thousands of dollars worth of software. In a study done by the Canadian Alliance Against S...
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Peer To Peer Moral Goodness
984 wordsKant's deontology and Cyberethics Copyright issue examined within the bounds of morality is an extremely difficult thing, especially when it concerns the concepts of right and wrong. Copyright and intellectual property is often explored in relation to morality and choice between right and wrong. Lets try to answer the question whether Music City should not be held liable for the copyright infringement of Morpheus users. So, what is right and what is wrong? What ethically correct actions are? Can...
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Wall Street Journal Credit Card Fraud
2,160 wordsJones Telecommunications &# 03 Crime on the Internet Overview If cyberspace is a type of community, a giant neighborhood made up of networked computer users around the world, then it seems natural that many elements of a traditional society can be found taking shape as bits and bytes. With electronic commerce comes electronic merchants, plugged-in educators provide networked education, and doctors meet with patients in offices on-line. It should come as no surprise that there are also cyber crim...
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Wall Street Journal Credit Card Fraud
2,118 wordsOverview If cyberspace is a type of community, a giant neighborhood made up of networked computer users around the world, then it seems natural that many elements of a traditional society can be found taking shape as bits and bytes. With electronic commerce comes electronic merchants, plugged-in educators provide online education, and doctors meet with patients in offices on-line. It should come as no surprise that there are also cyber criminals committing cybercrime's. As an unregulated medley ...
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Criminal Penalties Intellectual Property
3,920 wordsEconomic Consequences of Software Crime In 1996 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $ 15. 2 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $ 5. 1 billion in the North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses, due to software crime, as high as $ 4. 7 trillion. On the next page is a regional breakdown of software piracy losses for 1994. Estimates show that over 40 percent of North American software company revenues are generated overseas, yet ...
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Computer Crime Credit Card
1,514 wordsIts the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other peoples computer files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a computer crime really, obviously it involves the use of a computer but what are these crimes. Well they are: Hacking, Phreaking...
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Macro Viruses Computer Viruses
3,088 wordsComputer Crime Its the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other peoples computer files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a computer crime really, obviously it involves the use of a computer but what are these crimes. Well they are: Hac...
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White Collar Crime Collar Crimes
1,171 wordsIn today? s society our most valuable commodity is not grain, steel or even technology; it is information. Because of computer networks, just about everyone can now access an astounding range of information. The Internet is international, even though 80 percent of the Internet use occurs in the United States, and a staggering amount of information on every subject imaginable is available for free. Because so many people now have access, computer crimes have become more frequent. Everyone with a ...
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Software Piracy Quot Microsoft
2,220 wordsSoftware Piracy: A Big Crime With Big Consequences Imaging for a moment that you come across an advertisement saying you can meet up with an individual who will break into a store, disarm all of the alarms and will hold the door open for you as you walk inside and take anything you wish. This criminal offence occurs every day on computer systems around the world including the internet. This is a very serious problem and is very difficult to circumvent. Every computer user is both tempted and imm...
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National Institute Of Justice Lack Of Education
1,501 wordsEthics in the Age of Information- The information age is the age we live in today, and with the information age comes an age of ethics. When we deal with the new technologies introduced every day, we need to decide what we must consider ethical and unethical. We must consider all factors so that the use of the information readily available to many persons is not abused. Information technology will be the most fundamental area of ethical concern for business in the next decade (Houston 2). The mo...
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