Debate Evaluation: Analysis of Online Piracy and Cyber Ethics Debates

This assignment involves a comprehensive evaluation of four debates centered around digital media and cyber ethics. The student begins by providing a rebuttal to a video presentation on online piracy, taking an opposing stance. The assignment requires a detailed analysis of each debate, including intellectual property and patents, freedom of speech regulations, and cyber ethics, along with the application of ethical frameworks. The student offers their concerns, opinions, and pertinent questions regarding each debate's core arguments. Furthermore, the assignment adheres to specific word limits for each section, ensuring a concise yet thorough examination of the topics.

Running head: DEBATE EVALUATION
Debate Evaluation
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Debate 1: Online Piracy
The point that this particular debate topic raises is indeed a point to think about. The
entire idea is about how the people who have been spreading online piracy and how they are
taking up the rightful payment of the people who have been presenting or posting original
online content (Shiri, 2016). One of the primary question that can be framed form this debate
would be how the entire process of hacking can evoke the money out of the people who
rightfully create content online.
Debate 2: Intellectual Property and Patents
Spotify and Napster are both online song streaming websites and applications, but the
infringement of copyright is what becomes a topic of debate in this case. Spotify is does not
infringe laws of intellectual property and in turn helps the people in music business who are
not established enough. Therefore, the question remains, how Spotify is liable to be held
responsible about the infringement of intellectual property where for the same reason Napster
cannot be held responsible.
Debate 3: Regulation and Freedom of Speech
The most debatable issue in this matter is about the content that is posted online and
the emotional reason behind filtering them while being posted online. Human behaviour do
not understand the margin between Freedom of Speech and Regulation guides while posting
online. The question in this case can be formed as what is the level of understanding that
should be raised in the humankind to make them understand the actual relations between the
Freedom of Speech and the Regulation of the content being posted online.

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Debate 4: Introduction to Cyber ethics & Ethical Theories and Frameworks
The most debatable issue in this matter would be the understanding of the theoretical
framework that makes a person understand the framing of ethical laws (Watts, 2018). This
can be questioned as what makes it feasible to understand what can be done and what cannot
be done to frame the laws against the activities of people online.

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Reference
Shiri, A. (2016). Exploring Information Ethics: A Metadata Analytics Approach. Journal of
Information Ethics, 25(1), 17.
Watts, S. (2018). Public International Law and Cyber Incitements to Violence. In Incitement
to Terrorism (pp. 22-29). Brill Nijhoff.