ICT Effects

COMPUTER ETHICS EFFECT POSITIVELY TO THE COMPUTER USERS

Although we claim that we know what’s right, it is not easy to act on it because it is not usually easy to determine the right thing to do. Seldom we will think why should we be the one to do the right thing when everyone else is getting away with using copied software and music files?
Besides, computers cause new ethical dilemmas by pushing people into the situations that never happened before. Basic ethical principles which are used in computer ethics will help us in order to make the accurate decisions in our daily computer use. Ethical principles also help us to think through our options.
Three of the most useful ethical that is defined as the justification for considering an act or a rule to be morally right or wrong are an act is ethical if, were every one to act the same way, society as a whole would benefit; an act is ethical if it threats people as an end; an act is ethical if impartial observes would judge that it is fair to all parties concerned.
Good ethics is always practical especially when we use a computer at school or at work, because there probably have it own code of conduct or acceptable use policy for computer use. As a result, we have greater responsibility and less control over content ownership when we use someone else’s system than when we use our own.



NEGATIVE EFFECT OF UNETHICAL COMPUTER USERS

Have you here the word of plagiarism? Plagiarism is the example of unethical computer users. It is the serious problem in computer ethics because they will give the negative impact to Information Technology field specially.
Let’s start with something that’s gets many colleges’ students into serious trouble: plagiarism. Plagiarism is that the use of someone else’s intellectual property includes their ideas or written work. You might think how serious plagiarism is? As a student, you will get trouble if you plagiarize someone else’s ideas. For instance, at some school or colleges, students who are detected as plagiarize thrown out of school or colleges. Furthermore, even if your plagiarism action’s discovered after you finish your study; it will influence negatively to your degree and damage your career.
In addition, it is give big impact to who are owns the ideas that are copied illegally by someone else. For example, they cannot get income that how much they actually should get because their ideas or work are sold illegally by someone else. We also cannot know who actually own the ideas that are written in the internet because someone who is irresponsible copied ideas or works and make it exactly same and then claims as they are owner.