A definition of terms used regarding the Internet is necessary for the full understanding of how "unethical" data broadcasts itself around the Internet. The Internet is a worldwide computer network of home, organizational, corporate, and government computers. It is necessary to understand that the Internet is not just composed of web pages, but of files, e-mails, newsgroups, internal computer networks, personal computers, etc.; the media that most often provide the deemed controversial content are explained here. Electronic mail (E-mail) "enables computer users to communicate with and transmit digital material to other ... groups of users" ("Internet"). Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a chat system in which messages are displaye

· "Cybercheats: term-paper shopping online." InfoTrac. 23 Mar. 1998. 19 Oct. 2000

· "Warez Myth vs. Fact." BSA. 1998. 17 Oct. 2000

Currently, universities (such as Boston University) are taking action against these companies which engage in the sale of term papers by commencing in sting operations charging those captured "with mail and wire fraud, racketeering, and breaking ... law[s] against term-paper sales" ("Cybercheats"). Those charged believe that their actions are legal and take the stance that what the do "help[s] people" ("Cybercheats). Some ivy league colleges take the stance that none of their students plagiarize papers, that there has never been any trouble with that kind of cheating, and that their school is too respectable for that kind of action and the students understand that. On the other hand, students interviewed from colleges such as Harvard attest that they have used plagiarized material before because it was easy to attain and the classes were only being taken, as they were mandatory for the student ("Cybercheats").

· "1999 Global Software Piracy Report." BSA. 2000. 11 Oct. 2000

In conclusion, the variety of ethical issues on the Internet today are very broad, and will probably be debated for many years to come. Some say that censorship of the controversial part of the Internet will squelch most of the bad. Some say that this is unethical and impossible. However the problem is "resolved," these issues will face society as long as the ability to distribute such information exists, unless people are taught to live in ethical ways.

Software piracy, often called "warez" as a vulgar term by the pirates themselves ("Warez"), is not just a problem to people; it is a problem to the software industry of the world. A 1999 study conducted by the International Planning and Research Corporation for the Business Software Alliance and Software & Information Industry Association (forthwith referred to as the BSA and SIIA, respectively) shows that, though the percentage of pirated software has reduced in the past 5 years, the per capita expense of the software industry due to piracy has grown. Additionally, the rate of software piracy is still 36 percent (i.e. 36 out of every 100 programs worldwide are pirated; this number is based on the global population's PC business software applications), which is rather substantial ("1999"). The fact that the rate is 26 percent may lie in the fact that many so-called software pirates hide behind myths that they believe protect them.

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