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Article: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/30/china.green.dam/index.html Summary: China has passed a mandate requiring all personal computers sold in the country to be accompanied by a contro...

China pornography filter

started by Low Yunying on 02 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

I think there is a need to investigate the motivation behind using these softwares. Suppose a writer has recently come across an article that seemingly have plagiarised, thus using the software to ...

Turnitin plagiarism

started by Weiye Loh on 21 Aug 09 4 follow-ups, last by Chen Guo Lim on 26 Aug 09

The article talks about the software that the Chinese government has legislated to be installed on all PCs from July 1st onwards. The software is designed to "filter out pornography and other 'unhe...

censorship surveillance

started by Reseena Abdullah on 07 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

Case Summary: The article is about an intellectual property infringement that took place in China. A court in Eastern China has sentenced four people to up to three-and-a-half years in prison for ...

Intellectual property rights software piracy

started by Meenatchi on 25 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

http://media.www.csucauldron.com/media/storage/paper516/news/2009/09/06/TheMeltingPot/Technological.Freedom-3759993.shtml Digital Rights Management (DRM) or should it be called "Digital Rights Mis...

started by Jiamin Lin on 16 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

I think another question has to be brought up: Is the information meant to be public or private? If the information is public, then users should know they are risking identity theft by putting in...

privacy

started by lee weiting on 06 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Jody Poh on 06 Sep 09

From a Critical Ethic perspective, Who do patents and copyrights protect? What kind of ideologies underly such a policy? I would argue that it is the capitalist ideologies, individualist ideolo...

MS Word patent copyright

started by Weiye Loh on 20 Aug 09 1 follow-up, last by Weiye Loh on 20 Aug 09

I agree with this view, and I also add on that yes, it is probably more profitable for the capitalist, wired society to continue creating anti-virus programs, open more it repair shops etc, than to...

Virus

started by Weiye Loh on 21 Aug 09 1 follow-up, last by juliet huang on 22 Aug 09

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/technology/11iht-download.1.7846678.html?scp=20&sq=copyright&st=Search A student previously fined for breaking copyright laws at Brown University on Rhode Island ...

copyright :file sharing" "Intellectual property rights"

started by Jody Poh on 25 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

AI

started by Jun Jie Tan on 14 Oct 09 no follow-up yet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8046112.stm Only the first part of the article before "Cheap and Continuous" is relevant. Although the whole article is about saving the environment, it h...

social progress technology ethics justice

started by Jody Poh on 03 Nov 09 no follow-up yet