Thursday, January 28, 2010

Internet freedom Discussion Topic

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Freedom that kills, or kill the freedom?

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Not everybody in our country actually supports every single rules and regulation in Cyber Law. Well of course there are benefits for those who misuse the internet but at the same time we might do some damage to other people and we do not know when we will be a victim of cyber crime.

Most of the people who use the internet in Malaysia actually know how to download song files, movies, novels and it is actually a good way to save because the original products will actually cost us quite an amount of money. Not only by downloading, most of the young people nowadays knows how to stream online and watch movies or shows which is provided by certain software such as PPStream. This has actually given us some benefits because in Malaysia the government will not track us down and punish us unlike other countries. Some people might abuse the internet and scams other people for their own benefits. Private information such as credit card information, banking accounts, email accounts are the main targets for the scammers as they will steal your money through these areas.

On the other hand, the main reason for the need for the cyber law is the growth of the electronic commerce which makes it necessary to have effective laws. Private information will be vulnerable to hackers because almost everybody does transactions over the internet. E-commerce has become a huge activity in this world today and we must protect it from the people who called internet criminals from attacking people. The computer users that download illegal files from the internet are actually affecting the company who owns the original files. Even though the file is just a small file but what if the whole country is downloading the file but not buying the original product? We have all violated the rule because we are not using the product legally.

If businesses can make great use of the internet tools, so can the criminals.
Do you think that it is right to continue the internet freedom in Malaysia or shall we stop all the illegal activities in the internet? Please share you opinion.
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