- 2007 Issues In Communication - Internet Fraud And Freedom In The Balance
"Internet User Beware" should be a warning label that comes on each new computer sold. There are many problems, challenges and horror stories on the Internet with Fraud, Identity Theft and even Child Predators. Indeed the issues of phishing, spyware, malware, adware, identity theft and outright fraud have actually surpassed the annual amount of dollars of even the illegal drug trade in the US. These problems are not going away, they are growing. - Cyber Law and Online Gambling Ready to Come Under Heavy Fire
It appears that many lawmakers have had enough of online gambling and want it to stop. The issues has been going on for nearly a decade and many states are quite perturbed that online gambling bypasses their state's laws forbidding gambling. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is very upset and said on CSPAN that; Internet Gambling is illegal, it is that simple and that is the bottom line. - Cyber Law and Slander Online Considered
We are starting to see more and more Internet Laws being added to the books in many different agencies in the United States. There are cyber laws at the FBI, FCC, SEC, FTC and many other places cropping up. What is unfortunate indeed is that most of these laws are made to protect US Citizens and yet only enforced onto US Citizens. - How to Assign Copyrights for an eBook to a Non-Profit; Sample Letter
If you are an author and have written an e-book, which can help people often nonprofit groups will discover it and ask if they can put the e-book on their web site for all their members of their organization. Some authors don't want to do this because they want to make money selling the e-book online and make 50% royalties. - Internet Content Theft Hurts Honest Online Article Authors
How bad is content theft on the Internet these days? Well it is pretty bad and although it has not reached epic proportions yet it seems to have a very unfortunate hyperbolic trend line there. As an online article author I often notice people stealing my work and then I see it on the Internet somewhere without any mention or credit for it. - Sploggers, Spammers and Hackers Ruin the Internet
It is amazing that here we sit on the Greatest Communication System ever created in the history of the human species and yet some folks do not realize how wonderful a gift it is and thus ruin it for everyone. We really need to get rid of those who move to destroy the system; The Spammers, Sploggers, hackers, etc.
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