REPLY TO CLASSMATE’S POST
Digital crime is a relatively new area of law and the previous concepts of law, property, presence, and even theft have been revised during these past 20 years. For the future, how can American police investigate or stop digital criminality when the actors are outside the geographical boundaries of the United States? Is that kind of crime outside the ability of a state and local police force?Is it realistic to stop the kinds of digital crimes that are as common as speeding tickets?
Downloading of music & movies or other intellectual property for personal use?
I don’t think anyone could contest that it is stealing, but is it possible that it is so common, with an individual event cost so small, and offenders who are in all other respects, non-criminal, that criminal investigation & prosecution of this is a poor use of resources?
Perhaps there is an easier way to slow the theft?
Should we rely upon the same technology that steals, to protect the property? Just as a side note: I have a small role in providing technical assistance to a brick and mortar university with about 3400 residential traditional aged students there. The task was to reduce the rampant use of bandwidth consumed by the students outside of class hours. The answer was a firewall to filter and throttle the access and speeds of data. After 8 pm at night, what would you guess was the #1 consumer of bandwidth? Students doing homework? Nope—pornsites.
#2 was Netflix/Hulu.
When the filters were in place, 71% of the requests were filtered out because of porn or other sites deemed unacceptable to the university. What does this say about the utility of the internet?
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CLASSMATE’S POST
Technology has changed the world and the people within the world seem to try and change with the advancement of technology. My students are always told to stay off certain websites and complete their work. But instead the do something totally different, including trying to watch porn! At some point there just must be some more consequences or the removal of equipment from the room. It really makes you think about the future and what is it going to be like. It is easier to steal it is easier for, individuals to purchase things with the credit card on file. When you think about it, it is a lot!
I do think it is easier to give out a traffic ticket than stop cybercrime. Both requires humans but, it is way easier to do a veto than stop a bully online. The bully can run and hide within different websites, if you run from the officer there are consequences and there will be a fine to pay. Stopping a cyber bully also requires one to spend time online looking and trying to figure out who is who and who is really doing the bullying. Sometimes this maybe easy and sometimes it may not be so easy.
