COMPUTER
RELATED
ISSUES
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS (PIRATING)
Intellectual
property
rights are the rights given
to persons over the
creations of their minds.
They usually give the
creator an exclusive right
over the use of his/her
creation for a certain
period of time
.
IP is protected in law by, for
example, patents, copyright and
trademarks, which enable people
to earn recognition or financial
benefit from what they invent or
create. By striking the right
balance between the interests of
innovators and the wider public
interest, the IP system aims to
foster an environment in which
creativity and innovation can
flourish.
PATENTS
A patent is an exclusive right
granted for an invention, which
is a product or a process that
provides, in general, a new way
of doing something, or offers a
new technical solution to a
problem. To get a patent,
technical information about
the
invention
must
be
disclosed to the public.
Copyright is a legal term used to
describe the rights that creators
have over their literary and
artistic works. Works covered by
copyright range from books,
music, paintings, sculpture and
films, to computer programs,
databases,
advertisements,
maps and technical drawings.
TRADEMARKS
A trademark is a sign
capable of distinguishing
the goods or services of
one enterprise from those
of
other
enterprises.
Trademarks are protected
by intellectual property
rights.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8293
AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
CODE AND
ESTABLISHING THE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
OFFICE, PROVIDING FOR ITS
POWERS AND FUNCTIONS,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Pornography is written, printed or
video material that contains sexually
explicit images or content that some
people find to be arousing.
Pornography hurts adults, children, couples,
families, and society. Among adolescents,
pornography hinders the development of a
healthy sexuality, and among adults, it
distorts sexual attitudes and social realities.
In families, pornography use leads to marital
dissatisfaction, infidelity, separation, and
divorce.”
Pornography affects you whether you’ve ever
viewed it or not, and it is helpful to understand
some of its negative effects, whether you are a
man or woman, struggling with watching it, or
simply a mom or dad with a son or daughter.
 Porn Contributes to Social and Psychological
Problems Within Men
 Porn Rewires the Male Brain
 Porn Demeans and Objectifies Women
• It becomes about your pleasure and not the selfgiving, mutually reciprocating intimacy that it was
designed for.
 Porn Squashes the Beauty of a Real Naked Woman
 Porn Has a Numbing Effect Upon Reality
 Porn Lies About What it Means to be Male and
Female
PYRAMIDING SCAM
An illegal investment
scam based on a
hierarchical setup. New
recruits make up the
base of the pyramid and
provide the funding, or
so-called returns, given
to
the
earlier
investors/recruits above
them.
 Pyramid scams promise that you can get rich very
quickly.
 Person A joins the scam with the first payment. It
generally start off with only one person
 Person A recruits many other who has to make
the payment to A
 Person A gets paid by the others. The others, that
person A recruited has to find new people and
make them pay as well.
 All the other who join also pay a commission to
person A
 If more people are recruited, the more money the
people on the top level make
 There is a limited number of people who can join,
it cannot go on and on
 People at the bottom level basically end up with
nothing as the system collapses after some time
GAMING
OR
LOTTERY
Internet gaming or e-gaming refers to a
gambling activity that is played on or
through a computer connected to the
Internet.
The most common form of payment for gambling on
the Internet is with the credit card. However, there are
drawbacks with credit card payments, in particular their
high transaction costs and concerns about security of
processing credit card transactions over the Internet.
Credit cards companies have responded by introducing
security features. For example, Visa has launched an
Internet credit card to customers. It sends a series of
numbered cards to a customer, all charged to the same
account. The customer uses a new card and number for
each transaction to curtail fraudulent use of credit card
numbers. A payment option, rather than the use of
credit cards, is e-cash or e-money, in which all
transactions are processed through a bank rather than
a business. The customer sets up an account and
deposits money in a bank to use for Internet business.
The bank receives an encrypted message when the
customer wants to purchase something using the ecash.
There are many different negative
effects of Internet gambling. This is a
way that many people become
addicted to gambling and may lose a
lot of money. In fact there are many
people that have lost all of their
money and even their homes by
gambling online because they
become addicted.