Computer Ethics, Spring 2017
Comm 010, 4:15-6:45 Thursdays
Class 4
Week 4 Readings
Feb 9
Start reading chapter 2, on privacy.
News
House Passes Email Privacy Act: The House passed the Email
Privacy Act unanimously, on Feb 6. The Act still faces an uncertain
future in the Senate.
Live-Streamers of a recent Australian boxing fight are facing legal action:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-04/green-v-mundine-live-streamers-warned-to-brace-for-legal-action/8241276.
An interesting new form of file-sharing!
The Kodi is an open-source media player. It is often distributed on a
compact hardware device, a "Kodi box". The software, while legal, is highly
customizable, and some add-ons enable bypassing DRM. This story describes
police raids in England of places selling "fully-loaded Kodis": www.bbc.com/news/technology-38906561.
Can it be illegal for you to read the law? (Unless you pay for it.) www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/02/08/can-you-hold-copyright-in-federal-law.
Note that the author of this post is David "if seven million people are stealing,
they're not stealing" Post.
Debate Topics
Transformative
Use
Napster
model and film
DRM
Laws
& Cases
Google Books
Privacy