Cyber Squatting

Cyber Smearing
Cyber Stalking

Name : Riya sharma

RolL No : 79

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 agenda

1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS CYBER SQUATTING?
3. EXAMPLE OF CYBER SQUATTING
4. WHAT IS CYBER SMEARING OR CYBER
DEFAMATION?
5. EXAMPLE OF CYBER SMEARING
6. WHAT IS CYBER STALKING?
7. EXAMPLE OF CYBER STALKING
8. REFERENCES

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 introduction

• Cybercrime is defined as
a crime in which a
computer is the object of
the crime (hacking,
phishing, spamming) or is
used as a tool to commit
an offense.

• Cybercrime may also be

referred to as computer3
 CYBER SQUATTING

• Cyber Squatting refers to

illegal domain name
registration or use.

• Its primary purpose is to

steal or misspell a domain
name in order
to profit from an increase in
website visits.

• Cyber Squatting is also

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 Example

• In 2009, Internet software

company Google Inc. won a
cyber squatting case against
an Indian teenager who had
registered a domain name
googblog.com.

• The domain name, Google

contended, was confusingly
similar to its trademark.

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 CYBER Smearing Or cyber defamatiion

• The term defamation is

used to define the injury
that is caused to the
reputation of a person in
the eyes of a third person.

• Cyber defamation is
publishing of defamatory
material against another
person with the help of
computers or internet. 5
 example

• SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt.

Ltd. Vs Jogesh Kwatra
In this case, the defendant
Jogesh Kwatra being an
employee of the plaintiff
company started sending
defamatory and abusive emails
to his employers with the aim to
defame the company and its
Managing Director Mr. R K
Malhotra.

It is India’s first case of Cyber

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 Cyber stalking

• Cyber Stalking refers to

the crime of using the
Internet, email, or other
types of electronic
communications to stalk,
harass, or threaten another
person.

• Cyberstalking is
sometimes referred to as
Internet stalking, e- 7
 example

• Manish was stalking a

person called Ritu Kohli on
the Net by illegally
chatting on the website
www.mirc.com with the
name of Ritu Kohli. Manish
was regularly chatting
under the identity of Ritu
Kohli on the said Website,
was distributing her
residence telephone
number and inviting 8
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 references

• https://www.techopedia.com
• www.icmrindia.org/
• http://www.helplinelaw.com
• http://www.legalserviceindia.com
• https://legaldictionary.net
• https://www.legalindia.com
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