Essays Tagged: "Software & Information Industry Association"
Software Piracy, and current issues realting to the topic.
Software pirates are cheating the United States and the world of jobs, and retail sales in our socie ... society. The current law agrees with this statement. The United States government has made computer software able to be protected by United States Copyright Law. With this law, corporations intend to ... yright Law. With this law, corporations intend to reduce the software piracy business. However, the software pirates are not helpless in this battle, because new technology makes it easier to become a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Piracy in the Computer World
Software piracy is an all too common predicament in the technology industry. The official definition ... ing Title 18 of the United States Code to include criminal penalties for copyright infringements of software . If a software pirate is brought to trial and found guilty under the criminal law system, ... he may spend up to five years in prison and/or be fined up to $250,000. Under the civil law system, software companies can receive actual damages, including the guilty parties' profits. The court in a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics