Security And Stability Of Internet

Most of the software that is used today is purchased as a one-site license. This means that only one computer can have that software installed on in at a time. Copying or sharing this information without the use of multiple licences is seen as Software Piracy. There are many ways of preventing software piracy. Software piracy does not only affect one individual but also can affect a large group or company. Some of the effects of software piracy are; it reduces the funding for ongoing development efforts, it can limit the amount of jobs opportunities that are available to people, it also allows for other unauthorised copies of software that may contain bugs or viruses and lastly it prevents the user form getting any high quality technical support and product updates. There are too main factors/ways that can help to prevent software piracy. One way is hiding the users IP address therefor any traces of you being seen on that website are lost and therefor you cannot be hacked. You can also download software which will set up firewalls in order to prevent the user form getting hacked or getting a

Unlicensed software use continued to be a major problem in 2013. Indeed, 43 percent of the software installed on PCs around the world was not properly licensed, an uptick from 42 percent in 2011. The commercial value of the unlicensed installations was $62.7 billion. (The Compliance Gap, 2014). As we can see piracy of software and other digital media is a global problem that adversely affects many businesses and the welfare of employees and consumers.

Because the fact that the Internet has made it so much easier to distribute software, both legally and illegally, it is extremely difficult to “cripple” the software so that it only functions on the computer of the person who purchased it. I feel that people don’t mind paying for software, but the fact that software has gotten so expensive; most people refuse to pay it. Microsoft and Adobe are a great example of software that cost anywhere from $200 - $1000 to purchase. How can the public really afford prices like that? Sure if you are a corporation and utilizing the software to produce something that will bring in money, it is understandable. I

Prejudice is a negative attitude toward people who belong to a specific social group. Prejudice has been around our world for many years and there continues to be prejudice. In the book of Psychology there are many groups of individuals who comes from different places of the world and when looking at one another features maybe different, but they are much more similar than different. That is because they could be in the same age group or have same interest. It is much more likely for people to get along better with the person who is of different skin color than people with same skin color. Through history, much of prejudice talk revolves around race and ethnicity. Now in today’s modern society, there is prejudice against sexual orientation,

Software piracy behaviors have been characterized as an instance of antisocial behavior, where it perceived to be relatively harmless since they do not result in direct, grievous physical harm to others, although the economic harm to software companies may be extremely large. Numerous studies have found that the unauthorized copying of software has received increased attention as a form of unethical behavior in recent years and has developed into a widespread problem (Siegfried,2004) .

The technology development of computer and communication led to increase the illegal downloading of digital multimedia (e.g. music). In general, there is no change in the behavior of buyers, but starting of internet network and uprising of computerized systems, result in latest rise in piracy.

Its increasing importance has been recognized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which, through the Committee on Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP), has initiated a number of streams of work within the broad context of The Future of the Internet. (OECD, 2006)

Software has a big part in cybersecurity and it is tampered with quite frequently. When software is stolen, copied, or even borrowed it is considered pirating. Computer software is a "written expression that is protected by United States copyright laws." (Marshall). These written expressions are protected by the federal and state laws which were made for them (Marshall). Software pirating is illegal, and in the United States, if somebody is caught pirating software the government has made software pirating a felony rather than a misdemeanor (Marshall). Although the United States government makes pirating illegal, the American software developers do not make much of an effort, if

The introduction of computers in to the modern household has brought with it new moral issues. In the last 10 years computers have become increasingly cheaper to buy, due to huge technological advances and fierce competition, driving prices down. It the wake of the computer revolution the internet has followed quickly, becoming faster, cheaper and more accessible. With these technological advances the world has become increasingly smaller enabling piracy and file sharing to become common practice. Society now has many new issues to work through, from invasion of privacy to the copying of movies and hacking.

Today, online piracy is a widespread issue. People do so for a variety of reasons, the biggest of which is money. Stuff is expensive. Why spend $15 on DVD, when one could pirate hundreds for free? The ability to acquire things freely is fundamentally an un-solvable issue. The next, and the easiest to fix, reason why people pirate online is because of unavailability of certain

Walk down the street in Thailand and amongst the numerous trinket vendors, you will find one that has catalog of software titles. The same catalogs can also be found at the major shopping malls at numerous retailers. Flip through the catalogs, choose your software titles, and pay around US$3. A runner will go retrieve your titles and, in about 5-10 minutes, you will have your new software. This is only a glimpse of the multi-million dollar world of software piracy and how accessible it has become in the land of smiles, Thailand.

The Internet is the most popular network around the world. It started in 1969 and is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Also, it offers a variety of information and services. Around 40% of the world population has an internet connection today. Therefore, People is not only use internet for searching information or ideas, it also provide as a fast and effective means of communication. People can share information fast and clear among each other. Internet offered the world with a lot of important information and entertainment hence making easier and cheap for individuals. Internet helps

Since the inception of the personal computer, piracy and software has been a problem faced by many software publishers. In the early days of the modern computer, virtually all computers had a floppy drive, and program's executable and library files were seamlessly transferred from the hard drive or the software diskette to a blank floppy disk. Friends and colleagues would then get access to the costly software free-of-charge, or worse, multiple copies would be made of that program to later be sold for a fraction of the retail price, with the publisher seeing none of the money. It was already becoming a problem in the early 1990s, that the Software Publishers Alliance had produced a promotional video, Don't Copy That Floppy, to spread awareness of the implications pertaining to pirating software. A similar promotional video, Don't Copy That 2, was released in 2008 as a reminder, mainly targeting the younger generation and college students.

Firstly, I was not concerned about the pirated software when I started using computer first. I searched for full version software and got the cracked software. Downloading this software, I started using that software. Suddenly, one day I saw a news on an online newspaper that cracked software may contain virus and may hijack information from anywhere using the internet. After reviewing that news, I started to search for software piracy over the internet and saw so many articles over there.

In today’s world Internet has become one of the most important mediums of communication. It has become the lifeline of our survival. It has removed the entire social, economic and physical barrier and has immense effect on our day to day activity.