- Jones College is a small, rural institution committed to providing students with cutting edge technology in all domains. One of their more imaginative art students, Eric, mounts a 24 hour/7day a week live web cam feed from his dorm room on his web page. The camera records everything which takes place in the room. College officials begin receiving complaints from students, parents, admissions, staff, and board members about the "obscene" nature of the web page. There is much media attention.
- Jeff loves music and spends hours at various MP3 sites downloading old and new releases. He starts making and selling customized CD's to students in the dorm. RIAA becomes suspicious and notifies the college's contact person for digital copyright infringement.
- Sam has a 10 page paper requiring 10 works cited due in his political science class tomorrow. He has had the assignment for a month, but has done none of the work. A classmate, Derek, tells him about a web site where he can get a paper on almost any topic for free. A quick check, download, cut, and paste and Sam thinks he is home free. His professor, Dr. Roberts, quickly spots the plagiarized paper.
- Seniors Peter and Gretchen have been good friends since freshman year. Both have developed extensive computer skills. They have worked together in classes and in the campus computer labs. Gretchen has been having some serious problems academically and has resorted to some things she should not have done to get by in her final year. Peter is oblivious to this. As a result of her bad judgment, Gretchen is denied network access. Claiming to forget her new network account password, and to need access to files stored there for a project, Gretchen talks Peter into letting her use his. While in his account, she attempts to "hack" the campus grading system to change her grades.
- Adam and Megan dated all through high school. Megan broke up with Adam before coming to college this fall. Adam was very distraught. As soon as Adam went to another college he began using his email and instant messaging accounts to send Megan messages. At first, the messages were fairly innocuous. Megan either responded in a brief, perfunctory way that did not please Adam or ignored his messages. Adam increased the frequency of the messages and there was a menacing tone to them. Megan was resentful at first and then she became frightened.
- John has an exam tomorrow in his history of western civilization class. He has not been going to every class and has not done the reading. He borrows notes from a classmate and enters important points into text messages on his cell phone. During the exam, Professor King discovers John’s cell on his desk with the test info in the screen.
- Jessica discovers that the college library has an extensive collection of art books with amazing reproductions of paintings she really loves. She borrows the books and scans the images. Then she uses the digital images to create greeting cards, which she attempts to sell online from her personal web site at the college.
- David has a new laptop to take to college. He has stubbornly avoided computers throughout most of his high school coursework. He hears that he is supposed to have virus software on his computer, but doesn’t know what that means. A new deadly worm, ZMZBOT, infects his laptop, effectively destroying an entire semester’s painstaking work. Furthermore, because he is connected to the campus network, the worm takes down dozens of other computers on the network and brings the entire network to a halt.
- Sarah loves movies, but cannot afford the high ticket prices. She discovers that she can download pirated new releases and watch them in her dorm on her pc. MPAA software discovers a high number of her downloads and contacts the digital copyright officer at the college.
- Mike is a recent graduate of Spangler College, where he was known among students for his scathing posts to the popular Rank My Prof web site. He landed his dream job at a well known financial firm where he loved his work, but detested his boss and some ofhis co-workers, all of whom he blasted on his web log. A maligned co-worker and fellow blogger found Mike’s blog and sent the vitriolic posts to the boss. Mike was fired. The boss threatened a libel suit against Mike.
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