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Guest post by Clerk jonson. The rules of the internet can be vast and confusing at times; kids often break rules without even knowing it, and when adults do it, that’s when the law has to intervene. Here is a list of the most common broken rules online.
Adsense: Google
Google has many strict protocols and rules when it comes to guarding the public’s interests and not letting companies get away with making millions in a way that breaks the rules. Google has a rule that prohibits publishers or website owners from clicking on their own advertisement online. Apparently, this is a very common rule break, and despite Google’s warnings, companies seem to continue clicking away gathering extra profits.
Privacy policy
Another Google rule is privacy policy. For every site that uses Google AdWords, AdSense or Analytics, and does not have a privacy policy in place, they are effectively breaking Google’s terms of service agreement. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a tough business to crack, and to get your company in the top 5 in search results is a very tricky practice, and there have been companies who break the rules to get ahead – needless to say, they were shown the back door like J.C. Penney.
AdSense encouragement
The rules of Google are vast but simple; when using AdSense, as the aforementioned stated, you cannot click on your own ads, but you also cannot encourage others to click on the ads displayed via text or images. This breaks Google’s online rules, and can result in a negative reaction from the internet powerhouse.
Copyright law
If you’re a student, you’ll know all about the potential backlash from plagiarising someone else’s work. To copy someone’s article, image or words online is a very big no-no – especially for writers. The law protects a person’s original idea that is posted online, and if you do copy it and you’re found out, then the legality of the issue becomes real and you could be in a lot of deep trouble. It doesn’t sound like much but the severity of this issue is as serious as any of the above or below.
Hacking
One of the most obvious broken rules online has to be hacking. The word was never heard of until the introduction of the internet a few decades ago, and now, along with the continually improvement of computer technology, the hackers are becoming even more intelligent and destructive.
Often, hackers do what they do to embarrass or make profit from large conglomerates who they feel have let the public down, but that is a large generalisation. A hacker could get into anybody’s computer and create havoc with personal files and data.
Music downloading
We sometimes forget that we’ve only had the internet for a very small amount of time. We’ve had to learn what we can and can’t do, what works and what doesn’t, and what is legal and what isn’t. For a long time, millions of people thought downloading music without paying for it is a great perk of the internet which was legal and safe to do. Unfortunately, this is as far from the truth as it could possibly be.
Downloading music illegally has become a major issue for record companies who feel they are losing millions in revenue thanks to consumers getting the music for free, and as a result, if you’re caught downloading, you could be sent to jail. So, the best advice would be to buy physical copies the legal way.
Piracy
Piracy is a word we’re used to from films downloaded off the internet. Like music downloading, this method of downloading films from the internet not only infringes copyright laws but costs the film industry millions every year.
The trouble often lies with young and old people who download unaware that what they’re doing is actually illegal. This part of the law needs a lot of work to ensure everyone knows what is right and what is wrong.
Amy Greenacre writes on behalf of Broadband Choices comparison site, for comprehensive and impartial advice.
Guest post by Clerk jonson. The rules of the internet can be vast and confusing at times; kids often break rules without even knowing it, and when adults do it, that’s when the law has to intervene. Here is a list of the most common broken rules online.
Adsense: Google
Google has many strict protocols and rules when it comes to guarding the public’s interests and not letting companies get away with making millions in a way that breaks the rules. Google has a rule that prohibits publishers or website owners from clicking on their own advertisement online. Apparently, this is a very common rule break, and despite Google’s warnings, companies seem to continue clicking away gathering extra profits.
Privacy policy
Another Google rule is privacy policy. For every site that uses Google AdWords, AdSense or Analytics, and does not have a privacy policy in place, they are effectively breaking Google’s terms of service agreement. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a tough business to crack, and to get your company in the top 5 in search results is a very tricky practice, and there have been companies who break the rules to get ahead – needless to say, they were shown the back door like J.C. Penney.
AdSense encouragement
The rules of Google are vast but simple; when using AdSense, as the aforementioned stated, you cannot click on your own ads, but you also cannot encourage others to click on the ads displayed via text or images. This breaks Google’s online rules, and can result in a negative reaction from the internet powerhouse.
Copyright law
If you’re a student, you’ll know all about the potential backlash from plagiarising someone else’s work. To copy someone’s article, image or words online is a very big no-no – especially for writers. The law protects a person’s original idea that is posted online, and if you do copy it and you’re found out, then the legality of the issue becomes real and you could be in a lot of deep trouble. It doesn’t sound like much but the severity of this issue is as serious as any of the above or below.
Hacking
One of the most obvious broken rules online has to be hacking. The word was never heard of until the introduction of the internet a few decades ago, and now, along with the continually improvement of computer technology, the hackers are becoming even more intelligent and destructive.
Often, hackers do what they do to embarrass or make profit from large conglomerates who they feel have let the public down, but that is a large generalisation. A hacker could get into anybody’s computer and create havoc with personal files and data.
Music downloading
We sometimes forget that we’ve only had the internet for a very small amount of time. We’ve had to learn what we can and can’t do, what works and what doesn’t, and what is legal and what isn’t. For a long time, millions of people thought downloading music without paying for it is a great perk of the internet which was legal and safe to do. Unfortunately, this is as far from the truth as it could possibly be.
Downloading music illegally has become a major issue for record companies who feel they are losing millions in revenue thanks to consumers getting the music for free, and as a result, if you’re caught downloading, you could be sent to jail. So, the best advice would be to buy physical copies the legal way.
Piracy
Piracy is a word we’re used to from films downloaded off the internet. Like music downloading, this method of downloading films from the internet not only infringes copyright laws but costs the film industry millions every year.
The trouble often lies with young and old people who download unaware that what they’re doing is actually illegal. This part of the law needs a lot of work to ensure everyone knows what is right and what is wrong.
Amy Greenacre writes on behalf of Broadband Choices comparison site, for comprehensive and impartial advice.
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