Internet Security essays

Internet Security essays In the recent past a well known and widely used internet utility known as Napster was ordered to discontinue all of their activities due to copyright violations. Napster was and still is an internet music sharing service and was one of the most popular such services. The company existed to allow people across the country and even around the world to share .mp3 files with each other. However as the company became more and more popular they came more and more into the eye of the record companies and artists whose music was being traded freely across their web service. This attention resulted in a court case and eventually the temporary shutdown of Napster. It also has lead to the future state of the music service, as they will reopen for business later in this year, however will now be charging for access. This entire dispute came about due to copyright infringement laws and the breaking of them over the net, however, as can be easily seen, Napster had existed for a long time bef ore these charges were brought up, and even now many alternatives exist. The only difference is the relative size of the alternatives compared to Napster. Yet these other alternatives continue to exist without punishment. The question that I will answer here has a powerful bearing on the lives of these sites, as well as on the lives of most people in this country. That question is Should there exist a government run bureau whose sole responsibility is to police the Internet to keep crimes such as these, no matter how trivial, from occurring? My answer to this question, is no. I have many reasons for the answer that I have provided to this very controversial question, however, I will only be able to address a few of those reasons here. First and foremost of these, however, is a very obvious reason, the issue of privacy. Privacy has been a concern when enforcing the law for most of the history of our country. Privacy is the reason that w...