Software Piracy, A Big Crime With Big Consequences

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Imaging for a moment that you come across an advertisement saying you can meet up with an individual who will break into a store, disarm all of the alarms and will hold the door open for you as you walk inside and take anything you wish. This criminal offence occurs every day on computer systems around the world including the internet. This is a very serious problem and is very difficult to circumvent. Every computer …

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…Against Software Theft) said it best, 'stealing software is like stealing anything else. It is wrong!'(Computing Canada) Works Cited 'To Copy Or Not To Copy.' http://www.spa.org/piracy/okay.htm. October 12, 1996. 'Copyright Protection Campaign.' http://www.spa.org/piracy/pi_back.htm. October 12, 1996. Laberis, Bill. 'A Crime That Pays.' Computerworld. 29.2 (1995): 34. Microsoft. 'Microsoft Licensing Policies: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.' Microsoft Corporation, 1996. 'The Piracy Problem.' Computing Canada. 21.12 (1995): 12.