Monday, April 8, 2013

Legal and Ethnical Issues

Throughout history, people have been debating over the copyright usage of separate works, like books, speeches, artwork, movies, and even video games. Now, people have found a new way to keep tabs on the copyright online, even though the copyright holders are not impressed with it. In this article called 'Copyright Holders Asks Google to Take Down Their Takdown Notices', there is this site with DMCA  takedowns, which is the fastest and easiest way of having copyright holders spot their material being used illegally and have it removed from the Internet. The big problem is that this causes the opening of piracy sites and it's something that all the copyright holders like NBC, Universal and Lionsgate are not impressed about, even though they are impressed with the DMCA takedowns.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Security and Privacy


The problem with privacy and security is that there are a number of problems: pedophiles who are trying to deceive children, cyberbullying and placing up inappropriate content. In the article, 'The Conundrum of Visibility: Youth Safety and the Internet', there are a number of sexual predators, most of which are older, unattractive men, are all over the internet and trying create fake identities to deceive, lure, abduct and then rape young children who fall 'prey' to the 'predator'. Also, the internet, especially social media websites, are an easy way for people who shoot harassment at other people because of the content that they post up online. And then, people are always posting other forms of content on the Internet that is offensive, like pornography, racist and religious-presecution images. which will offend a lot of people, especially with the religious groups (the biggest one being Islam).