The Computer Misuse Act 1990 was passed tp deal with a number of misuses as the use of computers became widespread. The Computer Misuse Act makes it an offence to:
- deliberatley plant or transfer viruses to a computer system to cause damage to programs and data
- use an organisation's computer to carry out unauthorized work
- hack into someone else's computer system with a view to seeing the information or altering it
- use computers to commit various frauds
Many people spend a lot of time and money creating original work such as a piece of music, a picture, a pice of software, a photograph, a newspaper article. etc Many of these people do it for a living, so it is only fair that their work should not be copied without permission.
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 protects intellectual property from being copied such as:
- software
- text
- a new innovative human computer interface
- hardware
- books, and manuals
- images on websites
- Copying software and music illegally
- copying text or images without permission
- copying sections of websites without permission
- sharing digital music illegally using peer-to-peer file sharinf software
- running more copies of software than is allowed by the site licence
Data Protection Act- is a law that resricts the way personal information is stored and processed on a computer.
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