ON THE INTERNET, NOBODY KNOWS YOU ARE A DOG

FIRST PART THREE SUBPARTS (1) What is Cyber Laws (2) What are violations of Cyber Laws (3) What is Cyber Crime (4) Cyber Crime - Remedies and Punishment

CYBER LAWS VIOLATIONS: IPR (a) Copyright, Trademark infringement – Internet (b) Illegal Copying, Distribution – Software (c) Trade Secret, Reverse Engineering, Patents - Software

VIOLATIONS OTHERS THAN IPR Computer/ Communication Device (i) Object/ Target (ii) Instrument to Commit – Offence (iii) Other Violations under the IT Act Civil - Chapters IX & X Offences - Chapter XI

a.S-65 Tampering with computer source documents b.S-66 Computer related offences – Virus, DoS Attack, Spyware & Adware c.S-66F Committing or conspiring to commit Cyber terrorism d.S-70 Securing or attempting to secure access to a protected system COMPUTER - OBJECT/ TARGET

PUNCH CARD

PIDGIN PART OF SOURCE CODE #include „proxy.h“ #include „signals.h“ #include „sslconn.h“ #include „sound.h“ struct PidginCore { char *ui; void *reserved;}; static PidginCoreUiOps *_ops = NULL; static PidginCore *_core = NULL;

b.S-66 Computer related offences – Virus, DoS Attack, Spyware & Adware c.S-66F Committing or conspiring to commit Cyber terrorism d.S-70 Securing or attempting to secure access a protected system COMPUTER - OBJECT/ TARGET

CRIME – USING COMPUTER OR COMMUNICATION DEVICE (i) Offence under IT Act (ii) Offences under Enactments other than IT Act Offence under IT Act (a) Of offences Affecting the Human Body/ Person (b) Of offences Affecting Decency and Morals (c) Of offences Affecting Property

(a) AFFECTING HUMAN BODY/ PERSON S-66A Punishment for sending offensive messages Spam and Spim Phishing Cyber Bullying Cyber Stalking Shreya Singhal Vs Union of India S-66E Punishment for Violation of Privacy

(b) AFFECTING DECENCY & MORALS Publishing or Transmitting in Electronic form S-67 Obscene material S-67A Sexually explicit act or conduct S-67B Child pornography – very wide Exceptions S67-67B is in Proviso to S-67B

(C) AFFECTING PROPERTY S-66B Dishonestly Receiving … knowing or reasons to believe to be stolen S-66C Identity Theft S-66D Cheating by personation using … Financial crimes/ Credit card fraud u/s 66 C & 66D Phishing u/s 66D

OFFENCES OTHER THAN IT ACT HATE CRIMES - IPC S-124A Sedition S-153A Promoting enmity between... groups … S-153B Imputations … prejudicial to national interest S-295A … to outrage religious feelings … C-XXI Defamation C-XXII Criminal Intimidation Insult & Annoyance

PETER STEINER THE NEW YORKER 15 JULY 1993