IS 3003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cybersquatting, Copyright Infringement, Repetitive Strain Injury
20 Aug 2016
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Can come hidden in free downloads; tracks online movements. Info rights and obligations: property rights and obligations, accountability and control, system quality, quality of life, information rights (privacy): claim of individuals to be left alone, free from surveillance or interference from other individuals, organizations, or state. Claim to be able to control information about yourself: cookies: tiny text files downloaded by a website to visitor"s hard drive. Identify visitor"s browser and track visits to site. : servers are decentralizing information to different people so they don"t have to keep all the information: web beacons/web bugs/tracking files: tiny invisible. Software program embedded into email messages and web pages. No one else can reproduce, distribute, or perform the work without permission, granted for the life of the author + 70 years. Corporate copyrights for 95 years: patents: grants the owner an exclusive monopoly for 20 years. 3 principle sources of poor system performance: software bugs, errors.
