Sunday, July 12, 2015

Student Shall Not Download, Yeah, Sure.

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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