The Internet has brought many benefits to many people, but it has also produced a whole range of crimes that did not previously exist. Internet laws are laws that govern the use of the Internet. They regulate such things as preventing illegal software distribution,...
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Lock the Doors and Keep Your Website Safe with Encryption
If you have spent much time and effort in creating your website, you will want to ensure that it is protected from website plagiarism. This may include taking steps to disable right click functions, disable view source code functions or adding HTML encryption...
How to Design and Publish Effective Rich Media Ads
With embedded video becoming nearly ubiquitous on websites, the old standby static banner is losing steam. Rich media ads are the new standard in internet advertising design. These ads feature movement, animation, and sometimes interaction, as well as bold graphic...
What to do if Your Website is Stolen
Website theft is where somebody copies your entire website and reproduces it as their own. This can happen to anyone, but poor website security is usually a factor when an entire website has been stolen. Under intellectual property laws, all created material is...
How to Use Emails and Ezines as Effective Advertising Tools
Just as it is possible to place an advertisement in a magazine, or spend thousands on a postcard campaign, an internet-savvy business owner can also place ads in ezines – digital magazines – for a fee, or use free email advertising as a direct marketing tool. Whether...
Pop-ups and Pop Unders – Are they Out of Style?
Whether they’re referred to as popups or pop-ups, there is not doubt that pop-up html ads are the most controversial forms of internet advertising around. Web surfers hate them, often to the point of paying for expensive blocking software, but advertisers don’t...
The Evils of Online Advertising and How to Stay Safe
While the benefits of online advertising are many, and the temptation to create an internet viral marketing campaign is real, there are three main drawbacks to advertising online, and the largest, which involves internet spam and email, affects both advertisers and...
Is it Worth Spending Money on Streaming Video Ads?
With more and more corporations advertising on the Internet, and growing numbers of users using filters to ignore pop-ups, or surfing past banners, online video advertising is becoming increasingly popular. Internet video advertising uses streaming video content,...
Is the DMCA the Law of the Internet?
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or DMCA) is a law in the United States, which deals with copyright infringement on the Internet. The law also makes it illegal to produce technology that can be used to get around measures put in place to protect copyright. Under...