Cyber And Or Internet Laws - 1432 Words

Cyber and/ or Internet Laws Cyber Law is the law that regulates the internet. Meaning, laws or a specific law connected to the internet and/ or computer crimes. Two emerging trends and legal issues involving cyber law are E-mail contracts, and cybersquatting. There are many more cyber laws, but we will just discuss these two today. â€Å"E-mail contracts are contracts completed using e-mail. E-mail contracts are enforceable as long as they meet the requirements necessary to form a traditional contract.† -Cooper-Blood, L. (Director) (2015, July 20). Traditional contract meaning it has all the elements of a written contract has, agreement, consideration, capacity, and lawful objective. Also it must meet the requirements of the Statute of†¦show more content†¦The theme behind the electronic contract law push is that technology is quickly evolving and in order for states and economy to keep up, contracts electronically created and signed must be valid and enforceable under electronic contract law.† -TechnologyLawyers.com. (n.d.). An example of an E-Contract legal case is Hubbert V. Dell Corporation. This case was a Putative class action lawsuit brought by five lead plaintiffs. The plaintiffs purchased their computers from the Dell website, the computers which they ordered contained Pentium 4 microprocessors, according to the defendant that was the fastest, most powerful Intel Pentium processor available; but the plaintiffs asserted the defendants representation was false, because the Pentium 4 microprocessor was slower and less powerful than either a Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon processors, but more expensive. The plaintiffs’ complaints were Dell violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Consumer Protection Act. The defendants (Dell) argued that the plaintiffs were bound by an arbitration clause in their Terms and Conditions of Sale, which was a part of the parties’ contract. When the plaintiffs completed their order in the Dell website they clicked through five pages an on each of those pages there was a hyperlink to the Terms and Conditions of the agreement