A student locates a story, recopies it in their own writing, and submits it to the teacher as their own work.

A students uses the copy and paste commands to place large parts of an electronic encyclopedia article into an assigned paper. They turn the paper in as their own work.

Sam buys a new band's CD but decides he doesn't like the singer, so he resells the CD on eBay.

Amy tells Bob about her vacation, and he says he'd love to see her pictures. Amy uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program to upload the photographs she took at camp so he can download them.

Amy downloads a solitaire card game from the Internet that is “shareware” and uses it for several weeks before deleting it. She does not pay the author or use the software again.

Bob uses a survey disguised as an information form to collect Amy's password. He uses this to access her laptop, but does not change any of the information on her system.