Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Terms.

Terms on notes:

-Copyright.
-Intellectual Property.
-Creative Commons.
-Public Domain.
-Attribution.
-Derivative.
-share-alike.
-phishing.
-Identity Theft.






Terms not on notes:

Freeware- Software that is free of charge.

Shareware- Software that is distributed free on a trial basis with the understanding that the user may need or want to pay for it later.

Open Source- Original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed with or without modification.

Commercial Use- Terms of use for commercial entities using the site’s products to produce items for resale.

Firewall- protects the resources of a private network from users from other networks.

Virus- An infection to the computer that destroys it.
Computer viruses are small programs or scripts that can negatively affect the health of your computer.

Hacking- When someone accesses your system and alters it.

Piracy- When someone installs and uses commercial software without paying for the program.

Malware- software programs designed to damage your computer.

Data Back-ups- It means to save your data on another thing as a back up.

Cloud- Applications offered over the internet.

Cookies-small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser

Filesharing- You share your files with someone else.

2) Federal Trade Commission – what are the duties of FTC. How does copyright and CC fall into this category?
The duties of FTC is to prevent identity theft, and to prevent false information, such as false advertising.
Copyright and CC fall into this category because someone's identity is basically copyright. You are not allowed to use it at all. If you're an identity thief, you're disobeying copyright laws. Same with advertising. If you use someone else's slogan, that is disobeying copyright laws.

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