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White Collar Crimes U S News World Report
1,567 wordsAs 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). Ironically these same organizations have been collaborating with software manufacturers for an expanded software production (Cook 53). Multinational corporations and intern...
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Slavery In Greece Rome And Africa
1,665 words... were provisions made for the freedwoman. She could leave her patron and marry, but only with his consent. Islamic law provided a number of ways in which a slave could be set free. One was manumission, accomplished by a formal declaration on the part of the master and recorded in a certificate. This certificate was given to the liberated slave. The manumission of a slave included the offspring of that slave. If there was any uncertainty about an act of manumission, the slave has the benefit o...
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Allowed To Continue Record Companies
453 wordsIn America, millions of people are being accused of stealing from the music industry. People using the Internet, specifically Napster, are being accused of stealing. A. The record companies in America are filing lawsuits against Napster under the terms that they are helping with piracy of their music. However, if they were worried about copying music for free, who do the same record companies, such as Sony, produce tape recorders with two slots so you can easily copy tapes? B. There is no concre...
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Dollars A Year One Case
881 wordsEveryday businesses provide the world with products and services. People in general are just not self-sufficient. Who has time to make their own clothes, own meals, clean their own house, or even watch their own kids? Todays every growing business world and advancements in technology make it extremely easy to obtain anything one could ever desire provided they have the money to buy it. Many people gained great success and wealth from their original product and business ideas. People have also ga...
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Bill Gates Supreme Court
744 wordsAs technology speeds ahead seemingly faster than light, our society and social structures are not keeping pace. The American government has grown large and inefficient. There is a push toward Globalization, as geographic societies are disappearing, a growing indifference in a new intellectual age. All of these are causes of the inability of society to adapt with current technology. Our Government has grown to try to meet the demands of a constantly changing culture. In the process, is has become...
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Public Domain Video Clips
962 wordsIt seems like the fight between legal departments at major movie and TV studios and fan producers of websites has reached a fever pitch. In late September, the legal department of Fox TV sent out notices to cease and desist to two webmasters of fan "King Of The Hill" websites. Fox Primetime has cracked down on fan sites before, most notably those saluting "The X-Files. " It boggles the mind why fan sites pose such a threat to the studios. It would seem that for a fan to take the time and spend t...
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Current Copyright And Patent Laws Weak Ineffective
1,078 words... the patenting of software is not a widely loved policy, and is mostly embraced only by large corporations like Lotus and Microsoft (Naccracken 21) because it enables these big companies to make more money. As shown above, there are many problems could be caused by the shortages of current copyright and patent laws. Currently, software copying is generally considered a copy of the original code such as when a backup of software is created as well as when people load a program into their compu...
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Joined Forces North Carolina
597 wordsEdward Teach, alias Blackbeard, "more than any other, can be called North Carolina's own pirate, although he was not a native of the colony... As is the case with all pirates, his origin is obscure. His name originally, it seems was Edward Drummond, and he began his career as an honest seaman, sailing out of his home port of Bristol, England. He is seldom known by that name, for after he became a pirate he began calling himself Edward Teach, sometimes spelled in the records as Thatch, Tache, or ...
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Religious Comparison Of Christianity And Islam
883 wordsYou had to know history to understand what Bosnia and Kosovo were all about. That conflict proved that the war between Christianity and Islam has never ended. Over the ages, it simply took on different forms. Because we live in such a highly secularized society, we cannot believe that America could ever become involved in a religious war in this day and age. Yet ferocious religious wars have been going on all over the place: in Northern Ireland, Israel, the Balkans, the Sudan and Russia. But his...
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Recording Industry Association Mp 3 Files
1,566 words... member of the Grammy-nominated band Garbage who have put up rarities on their site, feels that the technology is "a cool way to distribute things that otherwise may not get released. In the process of recording, you end up with a lot of odds and ends that may be of interest to fans but aren't necessarily something you want to put out as an official release" (Goodman 25). Chuck D, who is well known for being unhappy with his former record label and embraces the technology of the Internet, acc...
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Property Without Due Process Liberty Or Property Without Due
1,062 wordsA young man named Shaun Fanning who attended high school in Harwich, Massachusetts had two loves, sports and computers. As he became more interested in computers, he decided to stop playing sports and turn his attention toward working with computers. He focused on two aspects of computers, programming and the Internet. His interest with computers grew from a hobby into an obsession throughout high school. In his freshman year at Northeast University, he attempted to enter computer courses higher...
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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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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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Mp 3 Files Beastie Boys
1,373 wordsImagine a world where you did not go to the music store and buy a CD. You would have $ 15 extra in your pocket every time. Now you ask why would I not go out and buy CDs? I like to hear groups I like. The answer is simple. There is something new out there in the world that makes it possible for you to never buy a CD again. There is only one catch: its illegal. Illegal in the sense that you are committing copyright infringement every time you participate in this new format. Mp 3 is this file form...
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Music Industry Mp 3
767 wordsWatch out Compact Disc, make way Mini Disc, MP 3 is coming through. MP 3, or MPEG Audio Layer 3, is a new audio format which will revamp the entire music industry once embraced. MP 3 files are playable on the computer and retain the CD quality near perfectly. As with anything computer-compatible though, MP 3 will be given all the blessings and curses that come along with the internet. On the producing end of the music industry, a switch to MP 3 is being extremely hesitated. Its only a matter of ...
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Dave Mathews Napster Napster Is Just Another Source Music
615 wordsDoesnt everyone like something for free? Well Napster is the thing for them. You can get free music in your own home. Its like having your own radio show in your house. You pick what song you want to listen to, when you want to listen to it. All you need is a computer. Napster is a computer program where you can download music from the Internet. Its like a big community of people sharing music with each other. It costs nothing. You just search for the songs of your choice. I believe that people ...
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Recording Industry Association Industry Association Of America
1,413 wordsNapster Napster Vs. Riaa Argumentative Napster is: Not Violating Copyrights Going to be a Useful Tool for Musicians in the Future Copyright infringement has quickly become one of the most talked about issues of the internet. The most difficult aspect is defining its boundaries and pinpointing its limits. The distribution of music via Napster is a perfect example of a controversial issue that has sprouted due to copyright questions. Technically, Napster is not violating any copyright laws. Althou...
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Riaa Has Overstepped Their Boundaries Overstepped Their Boundaries Napster
802 wordsNapster Under Glass Online, you can find a digital version of any song that your heart desires from classical to hardcore to country in less than 10 15 minutes. Terabytes or 1000000000000 (a trillion) bytes of Mp 3 files can be found online at peak times, which roughly translates to 330, 000 songs in 3100 different collections. A Mp 3 is an individual song converted into a digital format and playable on computers. A popular program easily accessible on the Internet is called Napster. After you d...
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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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