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JALYN PULLEN's List: DIGITAL LAW RESEARCH
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FACT ONE WHAT IS DIGITAL LAW
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Digital Security (self-protection): electronic precautions to guarantee safety.
In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people. The same is true for the digital community. It is not enough to trust other members in the community for our own safety. In our own homes, we put locks on our doors and fire alarms in our houses to provide some level of protection. The same must be true for the digital security. We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm.
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- Stealing someone's identity is called identity theft. (Covered in Section #7, Digital Security.)
- Stealing someone's digital property can be intellectual property theft, digital piracy, or plagiarism.
- Causing damage to others would be crimes such as hacking or creating and sending viruses.
What's Digital Law?
Digital Law relates to crimes of stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or digital property.
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Digital law is "the electronic responsibility for actions and deeds" (
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fact two creating viruses
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Viruses comprise one class of a wide variety of malicious software known collectively as "malware".
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Malware, short for malicious software, is software used to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems.[1] It can appear in the form of code, scripts, active content, and other software.[2] 'Malware' is a general term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile or intrusive software.[3]
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a. Any of various simple submicroscopic parasites of plants, animals, and bacteria that often cause disease and that consist essentially of a core of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms.b. A disease caused by a virus.2. Something that poisons one's soul or mind: the pernicious virus of racism.3. Computer Science A computer virus.
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fact three hacking
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computers : a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage, etc. : a person who hacks into a computer system
: a person who plays a sport badly
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A slang term for a computer enthusiast, i.e., a person who enjoys learning programming languages and computer systems and can often be considered an expert on the subject(s). Among professional programmers, depending on how it used, the term can be either complimentary or derogatory, although it is developing an increasingly derogatory connotation.
The pejorative sense of hacker is becoming more prominent largely because the popular press has coopted the term to refer to individuals who gain unauthorized access to computer systems for the purpose of stealing and corrupting data. Hackers, themselves, maintain that the proper term for such individuals is cracker.
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Hacker is a term that has been used to mean a variety of different things in computing. Depending on the context although, the term could refer to a person in any one of several distinct (but not completely disjointed) communities and subcultures:[1]
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fact four identity theft
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The crime of obtaining the personal or financial information of another person for the sole purpose of assuming that person's name or identity in order to make transactions or purchases.
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e crime of setting up and using bank accounts and credit facilities fraudulently in another person's name without his or her knowledge
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
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No accepted definition of identity theft existed until Congress passed the Federal Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998. This statute defines identity theft very broadly, making it easier for prosecutors to conduct their cases. It is of little help to researchers, however, because a close examination reveals that identity theft is composed of a number of disparate types of crimes committed in widely varying venues and circumstances.
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fact five copyright
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the fraudulent acquisition and use of a person's private identifying information, usually for financial gain.
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the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
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Copyright refers to laws that regulate the use of the work of a creator, such as an artist or author. This includes copying, distributing, altering and displaying creative, literary and other types of work. Unless otherwise stated in a contract, the author or creator of a work retains the copyright.
For a copyright to apply to a work, it must be an original idea that is put to use. The idea alone cannot be protected by copyright. It is the physical use of that idea, such as an illustration or a written novel, that is covered under copyright law.
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Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time, with the intention of enabling the creator of intellectual wealth (e.g. the photographer of a photograph or the author of a book) to get compensated for their work and be able to financially support themselves. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related rights. It is a form of intellectual property (like the patent, the trademark, and the trade secret) applicable to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete.[1]
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