... hack anyway knowing the risks and penalties of being caught. The computer misuse act also lets you view data about your self, and if you want to you can request to have it deleted. The computer misuse act protects people's network from being hacked into. For example peoples passwords being found out. This also prevents hackers (people who get into a network with out being authorized. Even though hackers hack into peoples computers today most of them are frighten that they might get caught and will have to suffer the penalties of the computer misuse act. Copyright, Designs and Patents Act The copyright law usually protects companies, or things like the music industry. The law says that no one is allowed to copy a purchase CD for example, and then either sells it or puts it on the web for other people to copy; doing anything like this could lead to the ...

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