Ethical Computing: Copying Music or Software from Another Person or over the Internet

Piracy has become a major issue in the United States. For every motion picture that has been featured in theaters also has been pirated onto the Internet the next day, and for every new musical album that is released, yet there is a free torrent file of the album within the same hour. Even though these online pirates steal music and movies from other companies and make a drastic profit, yet these “rogue” websites receive 53 billions visits a year from across the globe according to Creative America. The persistence of the thieves that break copyright laws of the productions has lead the entertainment business to place a definitive complaint to the U.S. government of the constant notion of piracy. While the notion of piracy was not left

In the global market that we leave in companies are trying to find any and everyway that they can to get ahead in their respective markets. This most of the time brings out the most innovate thinkers that can come up with a way to keep it’s company on top of their market and sometimes we see that there are companies that like to take a short cut by using non legal and malicious methods. According to Lewis, (1985), Software piracy is the illicit copying of the operating instructions and applications programs, which make computers work, is a large and growing industry. The Pirate Bay is part of a European social and political movement that opposes copyrighted content and demands that music, videos, TV shows, and other digital content be free and unrestricted. In the words of the Pirate Party, “the Pirate Bay is a unique platform for distributing culture between regular people and independent artists, and that’s something we want to preserve.”

Legal and ethical issues in computing are not as straight forward as one expects, these two comprehensive concepts can be divided into many sub-sections such as computer Ethics which is a moral standard used as a guideline for computer users, Code of ethics is a guideline in ICT, intellectual property is the own work that is created by individuals, privacy refers to the rights that individual and companies have and how their data is collected and restricted to outside sources, computer crime is an illegal act that involves computers and finally cyber law which is laws that are related to helping protect the internet and other online communication.

Traditional legal principles and processes are constantly challenged by the need to keep pace with copyright issues in particular piracy.

In this paper we are going to examine why personal morality is an oxymoron and how a moral system is analogous to a game. Then we are going to analyze how the ethical issue of software piracy is seen from the notion of common moral system according to Gert.

In life, there are many seemingly indisputable doctrines and principles that compose moral boundaries around us. It is commonly accepted that copying others’ intellectual works is immoral, let alone

This paper is an analytical essay on global ethical issues on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing. A history and background of peer-to-peer file-sharing will be given, as well as how it became an issue. This paper will explore what aspects of file-sharing are ethical and at what point it becomes unethical. An explanation of the laws will be described and whether the laws different from region-to-region around the world. The paper will include personal experiences with file sharing, as well as an in-depth analysis on the topic with high-quality industry and academic references to defend a particular moral/ethical position.

Every time a pirated work is spread to the four corners of the Internet by an anonymous user, software agents will quickly sniff it out. Anonymous infringements will arc across the Net like shooting stars, and disappear from sight just as quickly and how there is no stopping of these personal exchanges online. The author also provided a better way to understand the relationship between legal copyright markets and illegal markets such as black markets and friend-to-friend markets and how one can perform widespread copyright infringement without getting caught, if they're careful. The author made it clear that copyright law will continue in its traditional role of promoting markets for copyrighted goods on the Net, as it does in the tangible

We all know that downloading pirated music and films is illegal, but what exactly is it? The term piracy refers to the copying and selling of music, films and other media illegally; in other words you are copying and selling copyrighted media without the permission of the original owner (NiDirect, n.d.). With the massive growth of the internet and its ability to store and capture vast amounts of data, we have become much more reliable on information systems in all aspects of life, but it does not come without the risk of information technology being used unethically. With the number of IT breakthroughs in recent years “the importance of ethics and human values has been underemphasised” often resulting in various consequences. Not surprisingly one of the many public concerns about the ethical use of IT is that “millions of people have downloaded music and movies at no charge and in apparent violation of copyright laws at tremendous expense to the owners of those copyrights” (Reynolds, Ethics in Information Technology, 2015). This essay covers the ethical issues of downloading pirated music and films and the impact it has on music corporations and recording and film companies.

Identify and discuss these copyright challenges in the modern digital economy using examples from case law.

Morals and ethics question us in everyday life. We are constantly facing new dilemmas that put us in difficult situations; and thinking of them in depth will make us question our loyalty towards a particular matter. Graphic Designers face those obligations relatively more than other people. The nature of their job is to create pieces of work, and these may be those that as an individual, they do not solely agree with but have an obligation to complete it in order to keep the client satisfied or keep their job and inevitably, get paid. Similarly, using a piece of work which does not belong to the ‘creator’ but passing it off as their own and calling the originality of said work in to question can also call the ethics and morals of the user into question. Fair use and copyright infringement is an explosive and rising issue within the scope of Graphic Design, especially with the rapid evolution of the Internet. It has caused a lot of repercussions in the world of design, some which have benefitted and others not so much. The growth of this subject has helped in distinguishing the difference between what the main distinguishers are in fair use as opposed to copyright infringement. In an era where the Internet is the library and people have access to any type of image, artwork, logo, fonts or text they desire, it is often questioned how it can clearly be determined if in fact, a piece of work is being used fairly or is being infringed under the Copyright, Designs

The rise of the Internet era opened the whole new market for traditional media full of opportunities as well as threats. Online piracy being one of them because the music and film industry loses £5.4bn in a year and if it was reduced by 10% it could have created up to 13 thousand jobs in the UK. There are various attempts taken to fight with online piracy; a case study of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will be considered as well as other legislations attempting to regulate copyrights in the Internet. This

In the early years of computers and computerized technology, computer engineers had to believe that their contribution to the development of computer technology would produce positive impacts on the people that would use it. During the infancy of computer technology, ethical issues concerning computer technology were almost nonexistent because computers back then were not as multifaceted as they are today. However, ethical issues relating to computer technology and cyber technology is undeniable in today’s society. Computer technology plays a crucial role in all aspects of our daily lives. Different forms of computer technology provide unique functionalities that allow people to perform daily activities effectively and efficiently. In

Ever since 18-year-old Shawn Fanning created Napster in his Northeastern University dorm room in 1999, downloading and sharing music online has become one of the most popular things to do on the Internet today. But why wouldn't it? Getting all your favorite songs from all your favorite artists for free, who wouldn't want to start sharing music? The answer to that question are the people who feel that stealing from the music industry is not morally right, because that is exactly what every person who shares music is doing. People who download music think it's something they can get away with but now it might be payback time to a lot of those people.

I think, if you say that I have not ever got involved theft, you should think once more. You know, nowadays, all people can use the Internet easily. Especially, we dowload a lot of programs from the Internet. When we click on a site for dowloading programs, you can see so much advertisements which have free programs. However, there is someone who endeovors for these programs. In our day which nobody gives a thing nearly without expecting something in return, do you think that these programs are free? Certainly,it is not. It must be a provision of these services because engineers who design a software may spend months. But some of people sell these labours at own site by stealing. Of course, they are thieves, however who are we using these illegal programs? Most often, unconsciously, we may be included to this crime. However, this does not change our offence. In fact, using illegal software damages in three different ways. These are damages which are doing to person by oneself , are doing to the goverment budget, anda re penalties.