Decide what kind of cybercrime is described.

1. In July 2001, the online file-sharing network Napster shut its website following legal action from several major record labels.

2. In late 2006, a computer worm took control of hundreds of pages on MySpace and changed links to direct surfers to websites designed to steal their login details.

3. The first well-known worm was the Internet Worm of 1988, which infected SunOS and VAX BSD systems.

4. A 2007 study found that 28% of female internet users had experienced online harassment. In 84% of cases, the incidents happened in a chat room.

5. In 2008, author J K Rowling said that a company trying to publish an online Harry Potter encyclopaedia had ‘stolen her words’.

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In groups discuss the following issues:

• What type of cybercrime do you consider to be the most dangerous and why?

• Downloading songs films and copyright infringement; government measures to stop it

• Privacy on the Internet

• Social networks and security

• Censorship on the Internet