elgato
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:54 am Post subject: When You Break The Law Online - And Don't Know It |
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Thanks to the ever-shifting playground of the Internet and the vast possibilities offered by so much content, you may be breaking the law more often than you think. There’s the issue of illegal file-sharing, sure, but internet users are also at risk of breaking rules if they sign into someone else’s Facebook page and change their status (a process known in web parlance as “fraping”) or Tweeting that the recent recent riots in London were “awesome.” Kinda distasteful AND illegal.
This is the warning being broadcast by KnowTheNet.org.uk, a project of Nominet, the not-for-profit registry service for British domain names. The company is owned by its 3,000 members and makes money from registration fees.
Nominet believes we are all mostly in the dark when it comes to knowing when we’re breaking the rules online, at least under U.K. law. In a YouGov commissioned survey of more than 2,000 people in the country, only 33% correctly answered legal questions about uploading copyrighted content like photos or song lyrics to their blog or Facebook page, 42% passed a test on defaming others on social media and 38% knew the legalities of discussing super injunctions on social media sites like Twitter.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/11/15/when-you-break-the-law-online-and-dont-know-it/?partner=yahootix |
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