Thesis Statements:

• Intellectual property rights should be respected and defended with strong laws and punishments enforced by the government.
   
• Current intellectual property rights laws are inadequate and unenforceable in the electronic environment and will negatively impact the development of new technologies.

Some of the issues in this argument:

What is intellectual property and who owns it?
What is fair use?
Can traditional copyright law be applied to digital media? Does it address the issues of new technology?
Should intellectual property be protected under the law?
How important is content to the development of new technologies?
Has the technology revolution progressed so rapidly because of the lack of regulation?

• POINT OF VIEW Hollywood Profits v. Technological Progress
• The Copyright Website
• Copyright and Fair Use from Stanford University Libraries
• US Copyright Office
• US Patent and Trademark Office
• Copyright on the Internet
• Open Source Initiative
• Copyright for Computer Authors
• Ethics in Computing
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Why are Online Music Sales Down?
• Silent Night for Music Sales
• Intellectual Property: MP3's
• RIAA Suits May Actually Promote File Sharing
• RIAA suits put parents on hook for kids' swapping
• Free Speech & First Amendment Issues/Media Ownership & Broadcasting Issues from the Cato Institute
• Intellectual Property from the Cato Institute
• Confronting Digital Piracy: Intellectual Property Protection in the Internet Era
• Cyberpiracy
• Napster and Online Piracy:The Need to Revisit the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Thesis Statements:

• Changes need to be made in the law to increase internet security, and find and punish cybercriminals.
   
• Additional laws to stop cybercriminals are unnecessary, unenforceable, and could infringe upon internet users' rights to privacy and the growth of the internet.

Some of the issues in this argument:

What level of privacy can an internet user expect?
Should we regulate private businesses' use of information about their consumers?
Do laws meant to catch and punish criminals infringe upon the rights of law-abiding people?  In what ways?
Should the right to privacy be sacrificed to thwart criminals?
Should laws exist about what can be said or done over the internet?

• Internet Speech/Privacy: Public Agenda
• Young People and the Internet: Issues of Censorship and Free Expression
• Cybercrime.gov
• Center for Democracy and Technology
• Computer and Internet Law
• Computer Crime Research Center
• Computer Security Research Center
• Internet's personality is its Achilles' heel
• Internet sites for children say new law hurting business
• Cyber-crime laws emerge, but slowly
• Feds find dangerous cyberstalking hard to prevent
• Should cyber ethics be taught at school?
• The Fourth Amendment and Carnivore
• Privacy Issues from the Cato Institute
• Privacy and Technology from the ACLU
• Privacy International