For many people, going online really did feel like jumping onto the – information superhighway - and visiting the websites using chat rooms did feel like entering a new world and traveling around a new online world. In a very few days, the number of Internet users has sky-rocketed. Back to the 1990, less than 100,000 people were able to log on the the Internet. Today, around 500 million people are able to surf the Internet around the globe.
With each passing day, the Internet became integrated in human life with the physical world. As the range of Internet applications broadened and the users became more sophisticated, it became harder to see a user’s experience as it first seemed. Since, the success in field of human activity leads to the crime, the world is introduced with the new but danger concept, cyber crime. The Internet was the world of cyberspace with virtual meeting, virtual streets and most important, virtual crimes. Many people started to argue that the absence of globally harmonized legislation was turning the cyberspace into an area of ever increasing worries and dangers.
Today, Information Technology is encompassing all walks of life all over the globe. With all path-braking technological developments, the Internet gives us an opportunity to act as a global community; advertise and operate over borders and beyond the control of any national government. The intense volume of information and simplicity of its transfer causes the further problems. The ownership of information or data is very hard to protect – the illicit use of copyright material is common place. The spread of false and malicious information is also a daily occurrence.
The traditional legal system have had great difficulty in keeping pace with the rapid growth of the Internet and its impact throughout the Internet. While dealing with some serious legal problem, people expected the need of the cyberlaws to govern the new virtual world. The aim of the cyber laws or cyber related laws world wide is to harmonize the existing laws. Cyberlaws are made to lessen the legal issues in the future.
