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Chapter: Evaluate the pros and cons of ethical theories.
Apply ethical theories to solve moral problems.
1. Let suppose, you are the in-charge of the central library, which is surrounded by a population; majority of whom do not own computers at home. Therefore, they usually go to the library for using the internet. Among the internet users in the library, two-third are adults. The government has imposed the installation of a filtering software on all the machines in your library in order to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content on the internet. However, the software blocks many other websites, which the adult users want to visit on-purpose. In case of any objection over this, how would you respond to the installation request of such filtering software.
2. We can install Ad-blocking software to enable our web browsers let us visit different websites while not viewing pop-up advertisements available on those websites. Give reasons in favor or against the following proposition.
"Different companies provide you with free access to those websites because they use the advertisements as a mean of revenues. Hence you as a user violate an implicit social contract by installing Ad-blocking software on your browser."
Chapter : Explain the benefits of intellectual property protection.
3. What is the morality of posting an encryption key on a website publicly in order to help others play digital disks. Discuss your answer using Act utilitarianism while taking into account the harms and benefits.
Chapter : Identify methods for individuals and organizations to protect intellectual property.
4. Which is more likely to be effective in protecting intellectual property in digital mediasuch as CDs and DVDs: tougher copyright laws or new technologies incorporatingmore sophisticated anti-copying measures? Or is it hopeless to try to protect intellectualproperty in digital media?