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The BSA study evaluated sales data and market information for six major world regions and examined 26 business software applications. Software piracy is the failure of a licensed user to adhere to the conditions of a software license or the unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted software by a person or entity that has not been licensed to use the software. Software piracy has become a household word and a household crime and has had a great affect on the softwareSoftware piracy has grown at the same astonishing rate as the global Internet itself.(1) Software piracy, or theft, occurs when users illegally duplicate software for profit, produce counterfeit copies of a software package and sell it as a legitimate product, or make multiple copies of software and distribute it to others.(2) Parties that participate in software piracy include commercial users, software resellers, consumers and computer hackers.(3) It is now possible to find literally hundreds of websites devoted to software piracy by simply typing "warez," the slang term for pirated software, into any search engine. The newsgroup "alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc" is one of the busiest news groups on the Internet with thousands of posts every week. It is now almost as easy to copy a pirated program to your computer's hard drive as it is to make a cassette copy of a song off of your favorite radio station. Because of the growth of the Internet, the effects of computer software piracy are global, resulting in increasing social and economic losses. Moral and legal considerations plague the software industry in their effort to minimize losses due to piracy, while the demand for software programs continues to expand within the international scope of the Internet.
Approximate Word count = 1045
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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