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In today's society, technological advancements are being accomplished at a much faster rate than software companies can safeguard from computer piracy. There's a big conflict between legitimate business's and illegal distributors, which is creating a black-market. Essentially, piracy is illegal distribution and use of any product protected by copyright laws. Piracy effects society in various ways. Our paper discusses the laws and ethics, business losses, known cases, and the means used to commit piracy. There are many laws concerning software piracy that have been around for years but have proven to be fairly useless. Now we see an increased interest in the transmission of illegal software and some new laws have come about, to protect companies from piracy that are still in the making. Although the laws are in affect people know that reproducing software without authorization is the easiest and cheapest way to get the most recent software. These new laws will bestow harsher......

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