LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES ON THE INTERNET:- COPYRIGHT, PLAGIARISM, HACKING, NETIQUETTE
LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES ON THE INTERNET:- COPYRIGHT, PLAGIARISM, HACKING, NETIQUETTE INTRODUCTION Technology has impacted everyone around the globe. It has made communication, sharing knowledge, and access to world news almost effortless. However the internet is sometimes used in a careless, inadequate, and unethical way. Ethics is defined as “moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.” We have also discovered that we are vulnerable to their malfunction and misuse, creating problems such as computer crime, software theft, hacking, viruses, invasions of privacy, an over reliance on intelligent machines and workplace stress, each of which has created one or more ethical dilemmas for the computer profession. Ethics is a set of moral principles that govern the behavior of a group or individual. Therefore, computer ethics is set of moral principles that regulate the use of computers. Computer ethics promotes the discus...