Copyright laws help prevent people taking information that
they don’t legally own from others. On the internet data is very easily taken
from others illegally through various techniques. Because of this there are new
copyright laws in place that makes it illegal to do so. When the internet
wasn’t available, there were a lot less copyright laws because no one could
take information from others easily. Now we can get hold of music from a lot of
places on the internet that breach copyright laws, whereas back then, the only
way you could copy music illegally would be to record it, also loosing quality
while you do so.
On the internet, people take information that others have
posted and post it as their own information. This is plagiarism. Also this
breaches the copyright act as the information they are posting is not their
own. This has become a problem on the internet with people taking other peoples
information, changing it slightly and saying they wrote it themselves. When we
were only using books for information, this would be a lot harder because you
would have to write out the entire book rather than simply copy and pasting it.
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