Thursday, 18 October 2007

Exercise 5

Internet Plagiarism

I believe plagiarism is a really bad thing because it means copying the work that somebody else has done. Obviously it's not the same copying an essay or a final project for example, so the measures to be taken are not the same. So yes, a school's response to this issue should depend on different factors, but never the assignment for which it was copied or the reason why it was copied. It should only depend on the material that was copied. As the text says it is possible to ruin an academic career by accusing an student of plagiarism, and it's not worthy to do it for copying an insignificant writing.

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm

File Sharing

From my point of view it is more than acceptable to download music, videos or any other files as otherwise we would have to spend a lot of money in the stores. This gives us the opportunity of getting to know the career life of an artist that we could be interested on, and consequently buy a CD, a movie or whatever that he or she has done.

http://www.cippic.ca/file-sharing/

Monitoring Employees

Monitoring computers might be useful to improve productivity, increase security, reduce miscounduct, and control liability risks, but it is also a violation of privacy for the workers of a company. One of the targets that a firm has is the well being of the employees working in there, and this is not the way to get it. But it is also t




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