one of the nine digital law powerpoints

1. DIGITAL LAW
LYDIA NEAT & DAIZIA RUDOLPH

2. WHAT IS DIGITAL LAW??
• The legal rights and restrictions governing technology use.
• Some of the online problems that Digital Law takes care of are
theft, plagiarism, and cyber bullying.
• The four main problems that Digital Law prevents are
copyright, privacy, ethical issues, and piracy.
• Digital Law also makes sure that all web sites abide by certain
laws that have been established.

3. TYPES OF VIOLATIONS
• Illegal Fire Sharing
• Pirating Software
• Creating Viruses
• Hacking
• Identity theft
• Copyright Infringement

4. ILLEGAL FIRE SHOOTING
• The sharing of files between people using computers
connected to the internet.
• covers both the making available of the file (uploading), for
instance on a file sharing service.
• Exa. YouTube to MP3 Website, RIAA, File Sharing, &
Downloading copyrighted music

5. PIRATING SOFTWARE
• When software which has been duplicated and distributed
without authorization.
• Since the 1700s, people have been referring to instances of
copyright infringement as piracy.
• An example being someone who makes multiple copies of a
program and sells the copies.

6. CREATING VIRUSES
• A software program capable of reproducing itself and of
causing great harm to files or other programs on the same
computer.
• A computer virus might corrupt or delete data on your
computer, use your email program to spread itself to other
computers, or even erase everything on your hard disk.
• Exa. Macro Viruses, Memory Resident Viruses, Overwrite
Viruses, etc.

7. HACKING
• Unauthorized use of computer and network resources.
• Hacking is the act of modifying computer hardware or software,
in order to cause damage to sensitive data or to simply steal
confidential information.
• Hackers often target home and office computers that are
connected to the Internet.

8. IDENTITY THEFT
• When someone pretends to be someone else in order to access
their personal information in order to obtain resources or
benefits.
• Exa. Social security number, credit card number,

9. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
• The act of violating any of a copyright's exclusive rights given
to them by the federal Copyright Act.
• The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a
publisher or other business to whom copyright has been
assigned.
• Motives for copyrighting: Pricing, Unavailability, Usefulness,
Anonymity.

10. IF YOU VIOLATE
DIGITAL LAWS
• Many people get kicked off of web sites because they are
caught by the "Cyber Police.“
• In some cases people get caught doing other forms of digital
crime such as pirating movies and plagiarism.
• If you are caught committing these crimes, depending on how
bad the crime is, you may face some jail time.