sites created by students posting their own papers; these sites are massive and numerous, their numbers growing every day.Internet pornography has also created a huge ethical dilemma for many individuals, ethnic groups, religious sects, and governments. The largest ethical problem dealing with pornography is that it is easy to come by. There are literally tens of thousands of pay-sites containing pornographic content, and not all of this content is legal. For instance, child pornography is not legal while nude posses of children are, being defined as art. Additionally many pay-sites exist that post many nude celebrity pictures without the consent of the celebrities this, too, is illegal. There are many cases in which models, movie actors/actresses, sports stars, and the likes find nude and sexually explicit pictures of themselves posted, without their prior knowledge, on the Internet. The business and economic expansion of Internet pornography has become so large that sites such as Ask Jeeves are considering offshoots specifically for adult material. Search engines harbor these sites and even searching for something as innocent as windows backgrounds can turn up massive amounts of pornographic sites. Other problems found in the search engines lie within the software itself. AltaVista, for instance, returns a huge interactive Java banner, about half the screen high if the word porn is included in the search string. This would seem okay; however, a search for windows background excluding sites with the word porn in them returns the same huge banner. Another problem found with the internet is rooted in name-brands and domain-name sales, and the question: is it ethical for an individual to buy a corporate name, use a familiar term, or even go so far as buying the name of a government branch and adding a .com to the end of it? Ethically, the answer should be no; however, this is exactly what quite a few individuals are doing, as in the c...
