Sunday, February 28, 2010

Social Issue-CyberSquatting

There has been an increasing number of people getting famous by the use of the internet. The problem with this is not being able to determine whether they are providing their own personal views. It is so easy to reproduce someone's ideas of material and pass it off as your own. This ties in with cybersquatting. This essentially is using someone's name or ideas to make money yourself. An example is providing a celebrities name in the url, so when some searches that, it brings them to your website. In my opinion it is acceptable to use someone's name if you aren't making money. Also if you use someone's name in a tag on a youtube video it would be okay if it was because they videos are alike. I do this myself with my videos, but I am against trying to make money off of another's accomplishments.

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