In
this article, Kate Zernike focuses on college student’s attitudes about the
ethics of downloading music from the internet. This article deals with the
computer ethics in particular and the information technology ethics in general.
It also raises issues about ethics of downloading music from the internet and
it questions the ethical nature of different computer related behaviors. This
article deals with the issues such as using material in a paper without citing
the sources or authors, plagiarism or intellectual theft, hacking computer
systems, spreading virus, stealing software, piracy, misusing the internet in
the job, illegally copying CDs, DVDs, reading other’s e-mail secretly and so
on.
The writer talks about the plagiarism and the
downloading of copyrighted material in paragraph 13 and says, “the ease of
going online has shaped not only attitudes about downloading, but cheating as
well, blurring the line between right and wrong so much that many colleges now
require orientation courses……..” According to her, the new generation has grown
with the new technologies including the internet and in such world where
everything seems free, therealize that downloading music is not inappropriate
and unethical.
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