The Pirates Can’t Be Stopped

Case Study No. 1

Pirates

Similarities

“He figured out how to read

MediaDefender’s email”

• Thou shalt not snoop around in

other people's computer files.

“Listen to its phone call”

• Thou shalt not snoop around in

other people's computer files.

“Access just about any of company’s

computers he wanted to browse”

• Thou shalt not snoop around in

other people's computer files.

• Thou shalt not use other people's

computer resources without

authorization or proper

compensation.

“Uncover the salaries of the top engineers

as well as names and contact information

kept by C.E.O.”

• Thou shalt not snoop around in

other people's computer files.

• Thou shalt not use other people's

computer resources without

authorization or proper

compensation.

• Thou shalt always use a computer

in ways that ensure consideration

and respect for your fellow humans.

Difference

“He started poking around on the

company’s server”

• Thou shalt not snoop around in

other people's computer files.

“These guys are not right. I’m going to

destroy them.”

• Ethics is personal

• Business ethics is relative

• Thou shalt not use a computer to

harm other people.

“Grabbed a half years worth of internal

emails and published them on the same

file sharing sites”

• Thou shalt not interfere with other

people computer work

• Thou shalt not use other people's

computer resources without

authorization or proper

compensation.

• Thou shalt not copy or use

proprietary software for which you

have not paid.

“Ethan and his friends put more material

online. One file contained the source code

for MediaDefender’s anti-piracy system.

Another demonstrated just how deep

inside the company they had gone.”

• Thou shalt not copy or use

proprietary software for which you

have not paid.

• Thou shalt not use other people's

computer resources without

authorization or proper

compensation.

• Thou shalt not use a computer to

steal.

• Thou shalt think about the social

consequences of the program you

are writing or the system you are

designing.

“Took Ethan to expose just how quixotic

that fight has become”

• Thou shall not use a computer to

harm other people

“Denial of service attacks”

• Thou shall not use a computer to

harm people

“Cell phone hacks”

• Thou shall not use computer to

steal

Corporate

Similarities

“MediaDefender monitors this traffic and

employs a handful of tricks to sabotage it,

including planting booby-trapped versions

of songs and films to frustrate

downloaders.”

• Thou shalt not use a computer to

harm other people.

• Thou shalt not interfere with other

people's computer work

• Thou shalt think about the social

consequences of the program you

are writing or the system you are

designing.

Differences

“They made a software that can trace

people who upload files in the net so they

can arrest them”

• Thou shall not snoop around in

other computer work

• Thou shalt think about the social

consequences of the program you

are writing or the system you are

designing.

• Business ethics and ethics do not

mix.

“Its revenue had more than doubled, to

$15.8 million, and profit margins were

hovering at about 50 percent.”

• Good business does not mean

good ethics

• Business ethics and ethics do not

mix.

“The U.S. movie industry estimates that it

losses more than $2 billion a year to file

sharers; the record industry, another $3.7

billion.”

• Thou shalt not copy or use

proprietary software for which you

have not paid.

• Thou shalt not use other people's

computer resources without

authorization or proper

compensation.