Week 11

List of information sheers that will be relevant to you as an undergraduate students:
(taken from the website www.copyright.org.au/)

• An introduction to copyright material in Australia: this could be relevant to me as an undergraduate student because it states the law of copyrighting and what copyright actually is. This would be helpful in our further studies as we will understand the consequences involved with copyright.
• Film: this could be relevant to me as an undergraduate student if I was completing a course on film or something to do with the media as it contains information on the types of copyrights that are involved with film, clearances you can get to copy the film, what copyright protects and much more.
• Music (bands): this could be relevant to me as undergraduate student as it conatins information about the copyrights involved in recorded songs, working out who owns the song, how the copyright protects the song, who owns the copyright and much more. This is important especially in today's society as we have major issue with people downloading and copying CDs and music without actually paying for it.

Brief Summary on case US vs Sankus found on the website www.cybercrime.gov/ipcases.htm.

John Sankus Jr. aged 28 of Philadelphia, Pennysilvania was sentenced to 46 months in a federal prison for conspiring to violate criminal copyright laws. Sankus also know as eriFlleH (Hellfire spelt backwards) was the leader of one of the oldest and largest international software privacy rings on the internet known as DrinkOrDie. His co-conspirator Barry Erikson was sentenced to 33 months in a federal prison, both of these sentences are the longest ever imposed for organised internet software privacy. DrinkOrDie was a highly organised, security concious, internet osftware privacy group that specialies in aquiring new software and 'cracking' it (striping/circumventing its coyright protections) and then releasing the software over the internet. The company had daily operations and approximatley 65 group members from more then 12 countries around the world including United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Sankus is amoung more than 40 individuals worldwide targeted by the operation Buccaneer, which was a 14 month undercover investigation by the U.S Customs Service that represnts the largest international copyright privacy investigation to date by law enforcement.

Protection Plan:

By far the most eficient way to protect my computer, documents, login and email from possible hackers is to use a password. I have a password to login to my computer, email, ECU database... everything. I try have a different password for all of these things as if they all have the same password and someone knows or gets access to my password they won't be able to access information to everything maybe only one of the above mentioned.

There are many different forms of viruses these include viruses, email viruses, worms and the Trojan horse. A virus is a small piece of software that piggybacks on real progams. The virus might attach itself to a to a program such as a spreadsheet program. Each time this progam runs, the virus runs too and it has the chance to reproduce by attaching itself to other programs or wreak havoc. An email virus moves around in email messages and usually replicates itself by automatically mailing itself to dozens of people in the victim's email address book. A worm is a small piece of software that uses computer networks and security holes to replictae itseld. a copy of the worm scans the network for another machine that has a specific security hole. It then copies itself to the new machine using the security hole and then starts replicating from there as well. A trojan horse is simply a computer program. The program claims to be one thing but instead does damage when you run it and it may erase the hard disc on your computer. Trojan horses have no way to replicate automatically. Protecting your computer from a virus can be easy if you know how they work. There a programs you can download that scan your computer for virus and if you have one they can destroy it before it infects your computer. As the owner of the computer you can also be careful when opening emails from someone you don't know or opening up attachments. If you don't know who sent it or if it looks dodgy don't open it. There are just some of the ways that you can protect your computer from viruses, worm or Trojan horses.

From completing today's workshops I have learnt about what copyright actually is, how it is protected and how serious it actually is, ie law enforcements. From reading the case Sankus vs U.S I have also learnt how serious copyrighting is, that you can be imprisond for up to 46 months or more.