CYBER ETHICS

DEFINITION - Cyber ethics is the ethics applied to the online environment. The treatment of what is and is not cyber-ethical behavior may vary from place to place. Cyber ethics is a code of behavior for using the internet. One easy way to think about cyber ethics and to address the subjek with children is this: acceptable behavior on the internet is very much the same as acceptable behavior in everyday life.

DO - 1. Use the internet to help you do the assignment.
         2. Use the internet to learn about music, video and games.
         3. Communicate with family and friends.
         4. Encourage other people to use the internet for a good things.

DONT - 1. Don’t copy other people work and call it yours. Do credits to the auther or websites.
               2. Don’t use the internet to download or share copyrighted material.
               3. Don’t communicate with strangers and don’t pretend to be someone else.
               4. Don’t visit the prohibited websites.

PROPERTY -
1.  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT
The ever-increasing speed of the internet and the emergence of compression technology, such as mp3 opened the doors to Peer-to-peer file sharing, a technology that allowed users to anonymously transfer files to each other, previously seen on programs such as Napster or now seen through communications protocol such as BitTorrent. Much of this, however, was copyrighted music and illegal to transfer to other users. Whether it is ethical to transfer copyrighted media is another question.

2. DIGITAL RIGHT MANAGEMENT

With the introduction of digital rights management software, new issues are raised over whether the subverting of DRM is ethical. Some champion the hackers of DRM as defenders of users' rights, allowing the blind to make audio books of PDFs they receive, allowing people to burn music they have legitimately bought to CD or to transfer it to a new computer. Others see this as nothing but simply a violation of the rights of the intellectual property holders, opening the door to uncompensated use of copyrighted media.