Review

Legal and Ethical problems with clips on YouTube

The current paper on the legal and ethical problems with clips on YouTube is a relevant and intriguing topic. At first I expected some dramatic story on true bases, but was positively surprised not find it. My second assumption was to read some monotonous history about YouTube but on the contrary even the general part arise some emotions and thoughts.

To focus on the structure of the current paper I like the first chapter written by Anna. It is a good approach to first introduce the theoretical part about ethics and law in new media. She had quoted all the right authors considering the subject. In some cases I would have liked to read more about her thoughts regarding the theories or some sort of discussions.

The chapter about YouTube in general could have consisted more information, for me it was a too short overview. Of course the problem might have been me as I am not an everyday user of YouTube and would have liked to know more. I have also heard that some companies in Estonia have blocked YouTube but I think the main reason there was so that the employees would focus on their work assignments and not check out videos from which the employer (and in most cases the employee) do not benefit from.

The third chapter about cases regarding ethics also made me question that many things can be misunderstood/mislead thanks to a random video on YouTube. But to think of it more, than in life there are always misleading things/incorrect information, if you have the ability to separate it from the relevant info that just shows intellectuality.

After reading the chapter written by Toivo I had gained all the info I was expecting from this team paper. So in conclusion I could say- great team work! The structure of the paper was easy to follow and they seemed to hold one style.

Week 6

Formulate some measures which can reduce the effectivness of social engineerng attempts.

In order to reduce the effectiveness of social engineering people need to be more informed. If people are smarter by that I mean higher educated it is not so easy for them to become the victims of social engineering. I also have a sort of example- at the beginning of the 90’s in Estonia most people could not understand English. Of course at that time it wasn’t because they didn’t want to but everybody just didn’t have the chance. Anyway our family had friend who came to live here from the United States and he had a fancy car. Probably because of his vain car the police stopped him constantly and asked to see his driver’s license. At that time no one from the police understood the language he spoke and every time he was pulled over he showed his American library card as his license and got away with it. With that story I’d like to show my point if people are smarter they cannot be manipulated so easily.

Week 7

Brian Martin “Against Intellectual Property”

I believe there are many laws in the world that have been misused. By that I don’t mean that they have broken the law but they have self-profited from that by being sly. We can’t say that it is a crime but it sure is against goodwill. The point of intellectual property is to make the creators/authors feel safe, not for somebody to start making a business out copyrighting different sentences and start claiming money. Hettinger’s point of view had never occurred to me before but it is rather true that why should one person get credit for something that many people have actually been working on together. If in some cases the creator is actually nature then what justifies one human being getting the credit for that. From that I can only conclude that life is just not fare. From Martin’s strategies of change I think the most effective one would be reviling the costs, of course it would be a major project but in a longer perspective it would stabilize the world intellectual property. As in conclusion it is true that every creation was born because of somebody's earlier creation and therefore the meaning of intellectual property is sometimes questionable.

Week 5

A hacker is an expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. This definition was the most intriguing for me from the Jargon File as it sounds about correct. A hacker is somebody who is passionate about what they do and it can be possible in any other field besides IT also. In order to find out what you are curious about you might cross the ethical line but that mostly depends on the person and his/her principles.

One other definition seemed funny to me- a person who is good at programming quickly. I would rather call that person a professional on his field as a hacker is more of an armature to me. In today’s world the hacker ethic depends on the persons own ethical views.

If I think of a minority group in Estonia the first that came to my mind are our neighbors from the east. A minority group would mean that those people do not have the same understanding of something particular as others do. The second minority group to mention would be the homosexuals. It doesn’t actually matter to which minority group you belong to, you can make use of the Internet anyway. As in Estonia we have the freedom of speech it is possible for every individual to tell the world if they have been discriminated. It also gives them the possibility to express and explain why they believe in different things and therefore belong to a minority group. I don’t think people should be punished or discriminated for being different as long as everything is illegal and ethical. In today’s world blogs are the perfect places to protect and speak for yourself.

Week 4.1

In Estonia the digital divide is barely noticeable. You can have Internet access everywhere. We have many useful e-solutions for different generations and therefore the divide is non-existent. E-solutions make our lives easier and that is why all people want to be part of that. In case you do not own a computer there are libraries all over the country where can access the Internet.

compare the current situation in Estonia to the four scenarios of "Estonia 2010". Which one is the closest to the reality?

First reading the scenarios I was afraid we would be most alike with the “Militaristic information oasis” as the phrase “little angry country” seemed very familiar. Due to being the former Soviet Union and to our small population we can say that we get irritated easily. Fortunately the militaristic part is not too highly developed that our lives would circle around that. I would say we are more opened to making new relations rather than constantly looking back at the grey part of our history. Estonia’s educational standards seem higher to me than in many other European countries and one reason for that is that we are innovated. By finding new and better solutions to old ways, keeps the pupils interested and bright. So in conclusion from the four possible scenarios I would like to believe the “Grand Slam” is the closest to Estonia.

Write a blog description of an Internet fraud (scam) scheme

This year in August I got a new laptop and decided to sell my old one. I put the adds up on Kuldnebörs and Soov. Soon I received an e-mail from a girl who said that she would like to buy my laptop at once because hers had broken down and her work depends on it. I had no problem with that I was willing to meet her the same day to make the deal. I already felt that this seems to smooth and easy to be right. In some time I received another e-mail from her. Unfortunately she didn’t have the money at the moment, but if I could give her the laptop right away she would pay me 1000 EEK extra by the end of the week. Of course at that moment I knew this deal isn’t going to work, but just to make sure I googled the e-mail address. Then I found out that she almost had a career as a scammer. There were many people complaining in different forums that they had bought some clothes from her, transferred the money but never received the goods.
Luckily I did not get scammed but many people before me had. On a web site Buduaar many people sell and buy all kinds of things and a good way of making sure you do not get scammed is to search in Google for the users names. Reading about a fraud on a scamming site this example of course is not comparable.