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1. Computer Ethics
•Ethics is a set of moral principles that
govern the behavior of a group or
individual.
• likewise, computer ethics is set of moral
principles that regulate the use of
computers.

4. What is Hacking?
•Accessing computer systems illegally
•Detecting passwords using software
remotely/locally
•Looking at other peoples data/passing on
data
•Changing other peoples data
•Deleting other peoples data
•Inserting viruses

7. Consider the following situations:
• You buy a piece of software and e-mail it to five
friends.
• You download an article from a newspaper's Web page
and post in on an electronic bulletin board.
• You take a post from one news group and forward it to
another news group.
Copyright in cyberspace

8. What is Copyright
•Copyright is a right given by the law to the
creators of literary, dramatic ,musical and
artistic work and producer for sound
recordings and films

9. Copyright law in India
• The Copyright Act, 1957 provides copyright protection in India.

11. •Literary
•dramatic,
•musical and
•artistic works
•photographs
lifetime of the author + sixty years[3] from the
beginning of the calendar year next following
the year in which the author dies.
•Cinematograph films
•Sound records
•Government work
Duration of copyright

12. SOFTWARE PRIVACY
 Software piracy is morally bad when someone reproduces a copy of the
software and sells it for profit, produces exactly the same or similar version
without giving proper credit to the original author, or simply produces it and
distributes it to others.
 It is not immoral to copy the software if someone who has a licensed copy of
the software and simply makes a backup copy of the original. One back-up copy
of the commercial software can be made, but the back-up copy cannot be used
except when the original package fails or is destroyed.