Taking a Look at Illegal Software

Now some people might say that everyone in the situation is guilty since they are stealing through the website. I don’t think this is true because like have been saying they are not the ones who created the website they are still using. I do think that they should be prosecuted because they are breaking a law. I just don’t think that they should have a harsh crime because there are things far worst that get charged less like the quote I used in the first

Computers has made it very easy for people to copy and steal intellectual property like music, movies and computer software programs like Photoshop and Microsoft office. The

The first and least criminal is accessing unauthorized access to a computer system; this is often punishable for a 6 months prison sentence. The second level of the act is accessing an unauthorized computer system with the intention to cause damage to files, however not actually doing so due to either failing to or being caught before the damage was done, this is punishable for 5 years in prison. The third and final stage of the act is accessing an unauthorized computer system and successfully causing damage to the system. The way in which Leigh academy referenced this is by stating. "violations of the rights of any person or company protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property, or similar laws or regulations, including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of "pirated" or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by Leigh

Theft: Theft occurs when a person violates copyrights and downloads movies, music, software and games. There are peer sharing websites that encourages software piracy and many of these peer sharing websites are targeted by the FBI.

For a long time we have strived to protect what we have made from the hands of those who steal. Nowadays we have a huge problem with infringement and that is due

Unlicensed software use continued to be a major problem in 2013. Indeed, 43 percent of the software installed on PCs around the world was not properly licensed, an uptick from 42 percent in 2011. The commercial value of the unlicensed installations was $62.7 billion. (The Compliance Gap, 2014). As we can see piracy of software and other digital media is a global problem that adversely affects many businesses and the welfare of employees and consumers.

In this paper we are going to examine why personal morality is an oxymoron and how a moral system is analogous to a game. Then we are going to analyze how the ethical issue of software piracy is seen from the notion of common moral system according to Gert.

Since copyright music or movies aren't tangible, companies shouldn't use vocabulary like "stealing". Classifying digital software as theft is not something that should be said since media like movies aren't tangible items. The text states, "The problem is that most people simply don't buy the claim that illegally downloading a song or video from the Internet really is like stealing a car...When Industrial Age Bob and Joe started inventing less palpable things, like electricity, stocks, bonds and licenses, however, things got more complicated. What Bob took, Joe, in some sense, still had." The text explains why using words like "theft" and "stealing" wouldn't work when

There are many forms of digital content. All of them can be stolen and this is illegal as is any other form of stealing. Digital piracy is the sharing and downloading digital content illegally. The problem with digital piracy has been around for over 20 years, however due to many factors such as the recession and the increasing development of technology the problem is becoming increasing difficult to manage (QUIGLEY, 2008). However the ability to buy the content online has boosted the profit for many creators of digital content.

Such software comes in many forms; including adware, viruses, worms and spyware. Each of these malicious programs can infect a computer a number of ways, for example, through corrupted emails, downloaded files or web sites. Once a PC on the system has been infected, the malicious programming could spread to the servers and other PCs on the system bringing about more damage. Such software is intended for erasing, corrupting, modifying, and capturing data. An example of this is spyware, which can be used to learn usernames and passwords and in turn, be used to steal information from these learned accounts. While this type of software is dangerous, if we plan accordingly we can prevent such

At present, stealing comprises a much broader kinds of activities than it used to; it would be enough to remember shop-lifting or numerous facts of counterfeit product utilization when intellectual property is stolen against copyright-based laws and regulations. Stealing, therefore, is expanding and spreading; moreover, the very notion of what is stealing becomes modified and fuzzy. What are then the instruments that the consequential approach

On January 23, 2003, the world’s leading computer networking equipment maker Cisco Systems, headquartered in San Jose California, filed a lawsuit against China-based Huawei Technologies and its United States subsidiaries Huawei America and FutureWei Technologies. In the lawsuit, Cisco alleged that Huawei stole intellectual property by copying its Internet Operating System (IOS) software and its copyrighted user manuals. Cisco also claimed that Huawei infringed on its patents. After numerous failed attempts to resolve these complaints directly with Huawei, which included a cease and desist letter to one of Huawei’s United Kingdom distributors, Cisco decided that a lawsuit was necessary to

Downloading a movie or a song from torrents it is considered piracy and it must be punished. It is a minor crime but still it has to end at some point. If someone gets used to get what he want for free then imagine if in the following years they find a way to get also money for free. What would happen then? It appears only in digital on the screen. Stealing an original movie from the local DVD store it is considered a crime, it is the same stealing it from the web, and the difference is that it only appears on your screen. If you rob a bank in the web and just numbers appear on your account is going to be the same easy thing as downloading a movie in a few

Some people believes that software licensing restrict the technology growth due to conditions of license and giving the students unlimited authorities to entry the computer could cultivate constructive and civilized conduct of them. Computer securities is a puzzle, it will attracted people who is curious about puzzles, so without computer security it will reducing the hackers who is break in by curiosity. Finally, it will make a conclusion and recommendation as to whether software licensing is antisocial or not, ethical teaching is effectiveness or not and can eliminating the computer security reduce the computer fraud. It should be noted that the report is limited to evaluating situation from software licensing, ethical teaching and reducing computer measures, in accordance with instructions.

-The technical definition of computer crimes is an act performed by a knowledgeable computer user, sometimes referred to as a hacker that illegally browse or steals a company 's or individual 's private information, but in general terms, it is the unauthorized use of a computer for personal gain, as in the illegal transfer of funds or to alter the data or property of others (Computer Crime, 2016). There are four major categories of computer crimes, first we will discuss using the computer as a target. When using the computer as a target, they must do two things: intrusion meaning to gain access to the computer and deny the owner of the computer access to the service and data. Intrusion is when the individual alters the data. To use the computer as a target, the hacker must alter the password and/or login and by doing this he is denying the owner access to the data. If a hacker makes a copy of data they are denying the owner rights to privacy of his or her data. The hacker will use that information to intrude upon another computer. One popular method that can be used to deny service is to