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Business Ethics
Piracy an Ethical Issue ! Impact on Business
Abdul Samad HamailMubashirKamranMurtaza
Computer Ethics
Ethics is the branch of philosophy concerned with what’s right and what’s wrong.
Computer ethics deals with moral dilemmas and the ethical principles for computer professionals.
DO You Know Piracy refers to the unauthorized duplication of
copyrighted content
Do you Know We all Commit Crime
Copying MP3Sharing Movies
Installing Software Buying Books
Buying Art And Crafts
Downloading MP3 and Keeping more than 24 hours is crimeEvery 3rd CD and 2nd DVD is Pirated
US annual Loss 1.9Billion USD
Also called Cinema piracy
Video Piracy causing 3 biggest Paying Crimes Causing 2.2 billion UDS loss Hollywood
1.2 billion USD Loss Bollywood
Book Piracy
Deliberate infringement of copyright on intellectual property and an absolute disregard for ownership or authorship of literary works
ORUsing another person’s opinion, ideas or works as if they were one’s own and without making any attempt at acknowledging their true source
Trade Loss of US Book Industry Due to Piracy in PakistanYear Loss
(in millions of US dollars)
1995 30
1996 30
1997 30
1998 40
1999 42
2000 45
2001 44
2002 44
2003 44
2004 52
Causes of Book PiracyCauses Percent
High price of original edition thus low sale 80
High rate of profit 33
Non-availability of original editions 29
Inclusion of foreign books in syllabus 28
Easy and affordable reproduction technology 24
Inappropriate law for copyright violation 20
Legal action is complicated and time consuming 20
No supervisory mechanism to enforce copyright law 18
Difficulties in obtaining copyrights from foreign publisher/author 14
Difficulties in importing foreign book 12
Lack of communication between publishers/booksellers and the Copyright Office
6
• Pakistan has a strict and clear copyright law but its implementation is not easy
• Pakistan government’s failure to protect copyright causes a damage to its dignity in international community
• Readers are not well aware of the benefits of copyright
• Copyright law must be enforced, but• First, provide foreign books to local readers at low
price because
THIS IS THE MAOJR CAUSE OF BOOK PIRACY
© 2005 Prentice-Hall, Inc Slide 12
Software and Copyrights• Public domain software can be copied, sold, and
modified.• Shareware is copyrighted software that can be used
without a license for a specified time. • Trial versions can be copied. • When the evaluation period ends, a registration fee is paid for
continued use of the software.
• Commercial software is copyrighted.• You must purchase the software to use it.• Organizations purchase a site license to use the software on
all of their computers.
Software Piracy
• Selling software that contains all or part of a commercial software program
• Using shareware beyond its evaluation period• Violating the terms of a software license• Making copies of site-licensed programs for personal
use• Giving or selling commercial software to others
Software PiracySoftware Pirate Gets 7 Years in Prison
Main scenarioA California man, Nathan Peterson,has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution for selling pirated software online.
Nat
han
Pete
rson
1. Pleaded guilty
2. Sold pirated software through his website.
3. Two charges of criminal copyright infringement.
Companies affected Nathan Peterson was copying and selling software from:
• Adobe
• Macromedia
• Symantec
• Autodesk
Companies affected
Estimated losses to the software companies range from:
$7million to $20 million
Ethical and Social Issues• People buy pirated software without realizing what they're doing
• Consumers are used to buying products, such a books and CDs that can be shared with friends and family.
• But if you buy Windows, it doesn't belong to you, it's Microsoft's. They're just letting you use it.
• There are many ways consumers can be fooled.
• Pricing that is far below the manufacturer's price can be a tip-off, but many people think they are getting a bargain, not a pirated program.
Social and Ethical Issues
Industry
PatentLaw Copyright
Laws
Contract Law
Intellectual property
Software piracySoftware piracy
Problems• Software companies deal with extremely high losses
due to software piracy.
• Pirates gain a lot of money from their software piracy.
• People are not aware that what they• are doing is a crime.
Solutions
Ethical Legal Social Market
Protection Apply laws Education Detection