I searched digital harassment on Google and found something fairly interesting. I found an article from the New York Times that talks about three teenagers that had sent their boyfriends naked pictures of themselves and gotten charged with disseminating child porn. The boyfriends were charged with possessing child porn. This is an interesting story in itself and I've heard about this before, on the news and from friends. I personally think that it is wrong to charge these children with a crime, but I digress. My real point is that I think that this is just one of the many new criminal activities that we face in the digital age. I think the first time that I noticed a new illegal activity on the internet is when Napster became popular. While I was looking around, I even found that people try to sell in game gold or items in games such as World of Warcraft for real life money. As these games become more popular, I would think that shady ordeals such as this will increase. I also think that people enjoy exploiting there technology and making it do anything that it can which can obviously lead to legal ramifications.
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