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This 3-page paper examines legislation that has been directed toward information security protection. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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into a banks system and has made off with a ton of credit card information. Or maybe a devious programmer has initiated a destructive code that will confound computers when
released. Or an author sues a group of readers for allegedly "stealing" her e-book and then distributing it without collecting royalties. The
difficulty with legislating information is that information isnt necessarily tangible. Another difficulty is that information tends to skirt the First Amendments "Freedom of Speech" provision. If legislation is written too
specifically, it can curtail peoples rights to access information. Written too broadly, and the law has about a million loopholes that people can use to take information.
For example, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 makes it illegal to download copyrighted works (such as books and music) that circumvent
Digital Rights Management (or DRM) controls (Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998). In other words, people arent allowed to just take music or books from the Internet, without the authors or
musicians permission. The aspect this act addresses is the attempt to circumvent DRM devices in order to get that music or book. There are still some loopholes in this, but
its tightly enforced on most websites that sell books and music. Another piece of legislation that is trying to be pushed
through is that eradicating spyware. Spyware is that nasty stuff that gets on computers whenever someone clicks on a website. Spyware helps measure a consumers Internet habits, then reports them
back to whoever (or whatever) developed the spyware. This type of thing is obviously not a desirable scenario and there have been attempts along the way to legislate this situation.
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