CSC 1000 Excelsior College Software Piracy Discussion

I’m working on a computer science question and need guidance to help me understand better.

Pirated Software is the most common crime in the ICTindustry. It has become a global problem and has cost the softwareindustry billions of dollars. Although software companies have takendifferent means to protect their products such as launching more andmore lawsuits, using online product registrations, or copy-protectingtheir 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 articleyou identify cannot be already used by your classmates) about the(existing or potential) consequence of a certain software piracyincident, and discuss what could be done (or could have been done) toavoid the negative consequences.