Pirated Software is the most common crime in the ICT industry. It has become a global problem and has cost the software industry billions of dollars. Although software companies have taken different means to protect their products such as launching more and more lawsuits, using online product registrations, or copy-protecting their software, this matter has only become worse.

Respond to the following:

Discuss how software piracy impacts individuals, software companies, and society.
Identify an online article from a magazine or newspaper (the article you identify cannot be already used by your classmates) about the (existing or potential) consequence of a certain software piracy incident, and discuss what could be done (or could have been done) to avoid the negative consequences.