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Software Piracy Laws

__Software piracy __

In 2011, the Business Software Alliance announces that 83 percent of software deployed on PCs in Africa has been pirated (excluding South Africa)

Software piracy is when someone illegally passes on software to others or put it up on a site to download such as ‘pirate bay’ where users can download tons of software for free the software on their website you would usually have to pay for such as adobe Photoshop, How ever

1) The law covers everyone who uses a computer and the internet you can’t use an organisation or businesses software without paying for the rights to use their product you can’t pass on an organisations products to others without them personally buying the product.

2) The privacy law exist in the united states and in U.K both where you can get prosecuted however in UAE the law exists but it is more difficult to get prosecuted.

3) Its protects are businesses and corporations that make the product

4) Prosecution and in some cases jail

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