Ethical Issues In Internet Ethics

Internet Ethics - Introduction

The internet has become an important infrastructure and resource for the human population. There is widespread dependence on the internet by its users for support in daily research activities. The reliable and responsible of the resources it provides is very important to its users.

The internet’s utility is a consequence of its wide availability and accessibility. Access and use of the internet is a great privilege and should be treated as such by everyone concerned. Its irresponsible use poses an enormous threat to its continued availability.

Unethical and unacceptable internet use can broadly be described as:

• Trying to gain unauthorized access to certain resources

• Disrupting the intended us of the internet

People are generally not aware of the copyright issues and because of this generally used by the copyrighter as an excuse to silence the legitimate speech. For example, Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor posted one of his lectures about the fair use of the copyrighted work. In the lecture itself he used a Phoenix song as an example of work that people remix online. The video was scanned and found that the lecture had used a clip of a song from Liberation Music, who then fired threats of a lawsuit to him if he didn’t take it down. Lessig was aware about the copyright issues and violations and fought back to give an example and make general people aware of the fact that a copyrighted thing doesn’t mean that it cannot be replicated or used, although it needs few things like giving the reference, citation etc. Liberation Music later admitted that the use of Lessig’s use of the song was protected by fair use – a legal doctrine that allows copyrighted material to be used for education, satire and a few other exceptions. In fact, the Liberation Music paid an undisclosed amount to Lessig for the loss it caused to him. And this led copyright owners to adopt fair takedown practices or face the consequences themselves by the lawsuit.

Internet Ethics – Security vs. Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking:

An ethical hacker is a security personal who tries to penetrate in to a network to find if there

Being in recognition of the freedom humans are born with, and without more government than necessary. Furthermore human beings are good by nature and are made wicked only in society. On the grounds of laws being there to mould a man’s character, law operates on evidence, and Bitcoin leaves next to none. Legality aside, a healthy state should participate the common issues via direct democratic processes and discussion, even though this is already rare at least in western societies. Using bitcoin could let people evade this necessity even in states where they are well designed to abide by the force to be free. Without law and punishment civility would disappear from society – making incrimination unlikely would increase rapidly. Bitcoin makes enforcement near-impossible. This new currency would mediate a state of nature, one in which the stronger attacks the weaker but they both lose because of the risk involved. It would just be on a new virtual environment instead. The social contract is an agreement of man with man, and Bitcoin mediates that even if the two persons never really witness each other, there should never be any overseeing authority governing over himself, proclaiming that illegitimate and illegal. In the case of Bitcoin there indeed no such thing. Although, if people in most societies need currency to live – one would definitely choose the one