Digital law governs technology use and deals with ethics around issues like pirating copyrighted content, hacking, identity theft, and cyberbullying. Pirating music can result in fines up to $250,000 and 5 years in prison. Hacking a company for money can lead to jail time and fines, while minor hacking results in losing computer access. Identity theft carries a minimum 2 year prison sentence and fines. Cyberbullying may result in appearing in court, fines, lawsuits, and sex offender registry depending on circumstances. The document advises simply not engaging in these illegal activities.

1. Digital Law
By: Hope Linstrom, Kelsey Dailey, and
Andrew Bruns

2. What is Digital
Law?

3. • Digital Law is the legal rights and
restrictions governing technology use.
• Digital Law deals with the ethics of
technology within a society
• These laws apply to anyone who works or
plays online

4. Pirating/copyright
• One night a couple of friends decided they didn’t want to
pay for a song so they went online and downloaded it
from file sharing website.
• What are the consequences to this action?

5. Consequences to Pirating
• You have to appear in court
• $250,000 fine
• Imprisonment of up to five years
• A felony appears on your permanent record

6. Hacking
• A person in a company wired a large portion of company
funds into their offshore account.

7. Consequences of
Hacking
• Results of a minor hacking offense is loss of computer
• Major offenses result in Jail time and large fines

8. Identity theft
• You are a minor. One night you want to out to the bars.
You decide to steal your siblings ID because they are 21
and appear to look similar.

9. Consequences of Identity
Theft
• Minimum of Two Years in Prison
• Appear in court
• Fine

10. Cyber Bullying
• On Facebook, statuses that are anonymously aimed at
someone to humiliate them.

11. • Appear in court
• Tried for Defamation of charted, intentional emotional
stress, Invasion of privacy, Public disclosure of private facts
• Fined
• Sued
• Sex offender list depending on circumstances
Consequences of Cyber
Bullying

12. • Just don’t do it
In conclusion