The power of the personal computer is no secret. PCs and the Internet are often connected to give us unprecedented tools for helping to improve businesses. But the power of the PC can be used for evil as well as good. Among the wrongdoers, you may be the person staring back at yourself each morning in the mirror. Most of us, most of the time, try to do the right thing, but with PCs, this can be easier said than done. Just because something isn't illegal, it isn't ethical, even if you don't get caught, that doesn't mean you are better off. Say you chatted on the computer when you were suppose to be working, you are unethically wasting money that you business give you to perform. With the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1990 it has catalyzed the expansion of the Internet, which is still growing today at unprecedented rates. Now many business corporations are using the Internet for marketing, communication, and productivity. The recent growth of the Internet it has r!

esulted not only in an increase in the amount of available knowledge, but in an increase in the problems inherent to its usage and distribution. It has become clear that traditional rules of conduct are not alway

s applicable to this new medium, so new ethical codes are now being developed.

Censorship, has to be one of the biggest ethical decisions. Every since porn hit the Internet, censorship has been the talk to the Internet. The crux of the argument for Internet regulation are the children, but now business workers are distracted but this smut. The protection of business is the focus of those who favor regulating the Internet. These people claim that there workers are being distracted by accidental exposure to pornography and other sundry things to be found on the information superhighway. Fortunately for regulation advocates, pornography on the Internet does not just happen, a person must go out and look for it. It's very difficult to happen upon it accidentally. This is bad news for those forces who would have the public believe that pornography is at every turn on the Internet.

Another aspect of computer ethics is online privacy. One is a need for protection for yourself. Business workers online has been a problem, with people chatting with new 'friends' online and sometimes even threatening them. The second is a need to protect your data from strangers. All these unethical decisions hurt a business.

Although these exceptions to the rules make things more difficult, everything described until now probably seems relatively simple. The above discussion, however, is just an over-simplified explanation of the relationship between copyright laws and computers. With the increasing popularity of computers and the growth of the Internet, matters have of late become more complex. New situations arise daily, and these are often unprecedented. That is, they are indeed so new, that the copyright laws currently available are not adequate to deal with them. Traditional copyright laws often seem outdated in the ever-changing technological world. Because the copyright laws that are currently available do not clearly enough define what should be done in such cases, controversy is often the result. The

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