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.

Malaysia Cyber Law Discussion Topic

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Source - http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=302117

Date - December 12, 2007, 19.03pm
Title - Malaysia should focus more on enforcing Cyber Law, Says Microsoft

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Microsoft Corporation’s corporate vice – President Pamela S.Passman said that Malaysia should keep up-to-date with the latest cybercrime-related activities in order to deal with the current issues on Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Moreover, she advised Malaysia to invest on the law enforcement training to build up a legal infrastructure to serve as deterrent to cybercrime activities.


Malaysia has introduced an developed several cyber law which including :-Communication and multimedia Act, Computer Crimes Act, Digital Signature Act, Content Code, Copy Right Act and others that can be found in post 1.

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However, as a computer internet user, I found that cyber law in Malaysia is totally incomplete. In this case, I would rate 2 out of 10 for the satisfaction toward Malaysia Cyber Law because Malaysia government does not really care about what the people do in the internet as long as it doesn’t concern serious criminal acts such as terrorism or creating riots. Cyber law in Malaysia can’t work because of the weak law enforcement and most likely there will be no criminal charges on the people who violated the laws. The other factors that made Malaysia vulnerable to internet crimes are because of the government body which are not able to stop other major crimes in Malaysia such as Free illegal Download. People will start to do these because they knew that the government wouldn’t care less.

In order to enforce the internet laws in Malaysia, the government has to start from the root of the problem such as banning all illegal cyber activities. Heavy punishment such as jail sentence and fines on the people who violated rules and regulations of the internet law will also help to reduce cybercrime activities. Last but not least, streaming application such as PPStream and free download website such as Limewire should be banned in Malaysia because it has fully violated the copyright and licensing law.

-Koli Law-

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