The unscrupulous side of internet downloading

It goes without saying that new media technologies such as the internet have given us the pleasure of being connected to the rest of the world with just a click. A simple click on the internet allows us to effeciently and effectively organise our lives without even moving an inch. More often than not we have come to form trust bonds with services offered to us by the internet as we trust them more than our friends, for instance, to do the job for us in the most efficient and trustworthy of ways. However, for in as much as the use of these technologies mean to make our lives easier and in most cases bring the world to our living rooms, con artists have gone high-tech, using the Internet to defraud consumers in a variety of clever ways. Whether they're using the excitement of an Internet auction to entice consumers into parting with their money, applying new technology to peddle traditional business opportunity scams, using email to reach vast numbers of people with false promises about earnings through day trading, or hijacking consumers' modems and cramming hefty long-distance charges onto their phone bills, scam artists are just a click away.

Movieland, which advertises its product by using pop-up ads at other sites with access to members-only content including music, news, updated sports scores and adult movies, has been surrounded by a cloud of scandal and shame with users alleging that the service demands them to pay for products they never even subcribed to, charging at $29.95 per month to stop the pop-up cycles. Services such as these give internet services a negative identity as immoral and unprincipled. Moreover such services make the use of the Internet in our everyday lives a pain especially since these pop-ups are usually so large they make it virtually impossible for users to carry out whatever work it is that they are trying to get done. And so in this regard the internet becomes yet another avenue for people with no morale to exploit and con innocent people of their hard earned money.