Impact on professional life (2)

However, there are also a number of drawbacks related with this, a number of which I have listed below.
  • Illegal downloading occurs frequently on the internet, resulting in some big companies not making as much money as they should
              - People in today’s day and age are surrounded by all sorts of digitally stored information types. Sadly though, people abuse this availability and upload these files to file sharing sites for everyone else who logs on to the website to download. Although the downloaders are happy that they are getting something for free, they do not realise the impacts of what they are doing. The music industry for example loses millions of pounds every year because people do not purchase content. As a result, hundreds of jobs are lost as wages are not able to be paid.
  • Phishing scams are common in spam emails where emails appear to be from certain businesses, when in fact they are not
              - Phishing scams consist of the act of illegally obtaining delicate information from unaware users by masquerading as trustworthy corporations. As a result of these scams, victims could lose a lot of money, and the victim is not the only one affected by this – the company’s reputation is too even though they had no association with the scam.