Accurate Decision Between Right and Wrong Things

Question: Discuss about the Article for IT Ethics. Answer: Introduction The word ethics binds us with the moral stands, principle, values. Ethics helps us to take the accurate decision between right and wrong things. In other words, by law ethics is something that helps to govern or conduct on a persons behavior. In any country across the world, they all have their own ethics to control over their states. And those who tries to break or go beyond the ethical values they are punished as they conduct a crime in the eye of law. In every field of work all companies carry out their own ethics (Aristotle., and Ross, W. 2000). Not only is that even in family, there ethics are present among our near and dear ones. A term that has been going around all over the world for quite some time in the last half of this decade is web piracy. What that means and what are the laws against it is not something most people are quite familiar with. So in this case study I will try to cast some light onto web piracy and what it's all about. The case in point is the new laws that have been passed in the Australian parliament to ban the illegal downloading of the hit HBO show GOT. Of course this is a case from June 2015, but the piracy case is something that is still going strong in all corners of the world. Most people around the world are well accustomed with the term torrent and downloading torrents. Downloading torrents, well most torrents, is illegal. because the source of uploading these torrents is not the production house or the artist himself, but a third party who has gotten hold of the file illegally and is now letting every person all over the world download the same illegal file without any authoriz ation of the content's owner whatsoever .this, to the owner means nothing more than a loss, mainly financially. Many of the stuff up in the torrent sites are worth a lot of money (Dewey, J. and Tufts, J. 1908). Current numbers show that the amount of downloadable media content in the torrenting sites alone in the UK is about 60bn. This when extrapolated to all over the world will come out to be some exorbitant amount of money which is a direct loss to both the owner as well the governments all over the world? Illegal downloading of torrent has been a problem for the better part of this decade, but it has gathered speed only recently with various government agencies swooping in to track sown these illegal uploaders and downloaders. But the number is low, mostly because of the way torrenting works. While downloading a torrent a person does not download the entire file from one single source, like it happens when suppose u are downloading a file from Microsoft. But it is like taking sm all parts of the file from various sharers all over the world. And the address of these files is nothing but codes and hashes which are extremely difficult to track down. Hence even if they got is trying to bring down the number of these file sharing websites, it is extremely difficult to cut all the heads at once (Frankena, W. 1973). And as soon as this one head is cut many others can sprout. But the new laws passed by the Aussie government will give movie or TV right holders legal counsel against these file sharing websites. recently one of the biggest file sharing website pirate bay was closed down and its founder peter sunder was jailed for five months, but as can be seen the site is again up and running in alternate forms. legally it is very difficult to track down the base of these sites because of the latest player in the market-VPNs. with van it becomes almost impossible to track down the source code for these sites and who runs them because the signal bounces off so many IP s that after a point of time it is just like finding a needle in a hay stack. One of the worst enemies of online intellectual property protecting laws is the ONION routing, which is an extremely sophisticated method of relaying information (read downloading torrent) over the internet (Hartmann, N. and Coit, S. 1932). It uses several layers of protection and bounces the signal of various nodes and IPs creating a virtual mesh where it is impossible to find the source and end point of a signal. And hence these services are much in use in this modern day of torrenting. Even if the Australian government bans web sharing sites, users will find a way to download them using these circumventing softwares which mask your original address and create a fake IP from a different geographical position so that u are able to download the file of your choice illegally. Unless the government finds a way to deal with these tricky and vicious softwares that are mostly used for illegal work, it is going to be a very hard time for people like GOT producers and other movie TV right owners to get the whole of their findings worth. Heres to hoping that they do. Thus, we conclude that ethics are important factor in our day to day life as nowadays life is surrounded by electronic systems, gadgets and many more. References Aristotle., and Ross, W. (2000). Nicomachean ethics. Raleigh, N.C.: Alex Catalogue. Dewey, J. and Tufts, J. (1908). Ethics. New York: H. Holt and Co. Frankena, W. (1973). Ethics. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Hartmann, N. and Coit, S. (1932). Ethics. London: G. Allen Unwin Ltd. Hastings, J. (1910). Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics. Edinburgh: Clark [u.a.]. Nowell-Smith, P. (1954). Ethics. [London]: [Penguin Books].