Web Sites Like Napster Demonstrate That the Pursuit of Self-Interest

question 100

Multiple Choice

Web sites like Napster demonstrate that the pursuit of self-interest can lead to a collective disaster when one or more people start to profit from being unethical because this encourages other people to act in the same way. This exemplifies a situation known as the _____.

• A) "race to the bottom"
• B) "tragedy of the commons"
• C) "prisoner's dilemma"
• D) "war of attrition"
• E) "market for lemons"

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Local Security Policy

Security rules that can be applied to a computer.

Root

In Unix/Linux, the administrator account. The root user has absolute power on a system, including within macOS.

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