Legal & Ethical issues for using a computer.

Music and video downloading: It has become a big issue, downloading music and video files over internet. The companies who creates the files are the people who suffers piracy because of hackers. Piracy is a stolen version of any file. People usually buy one original file and upload it on internet for others to use. Some people makes money through these stuffs. The law for this stealing or piracy is really strict but according to the police it is hard to catch everyone because almost everyone is using the pirated files as it is expensive to buy.

Spyware: Spyware are like malware. They are mainly used to hack other computers information. It is installed secretly and hard to detect. Its a software made by the hackers to access the information on others computer without using it directly.

Phishing: It a process of stealing information from others computer. Information like username, passwords, credit card numbers etc. According to the law its a crime. It is usually carried by instant message or emails. AOL has suffered through phishing in its early days.The hackers or the phishing creators had a great opportunity as the security of the companies wasn't good enough to catch them. Advancing technology also developed the phishing system.

Identity theft: It means to access other peoples resources or to obtain credit card and other advantages in that person's name without being authorized. It has been a big issue over the last few years. Companies which has the access to others account or other's resources can possibly do this identity theft. Some new companies are usually related to this kind of fraud. They offer many things to attract customers which causes the customers to use it and being a target of identity theft.

Cyber Bullying: Cyber bullying has a been a big issue since 1996(source-internet). It changed many people's life in a bad way. Cyber Bullying means to bully some one over internet. In this advanced technology world it is almost impossible to catch every single person who starts cyber bullying. Some people even committed suicide due cyber bullying by class mates. Every now and then someone is being cyber bullied. According to the law its a crime and who ever reports cyber bully is charged fines or has to face the law.