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Problem 1: Software piracy‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ has become a growing ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍problem over the years. Software piracy is when you give away or sell software that has already been purchased before, and are selling it for your own profit. "A report by the Business Software Alliance (BSA,2009) noted that for the past five years worldwide, software piracy has hovered between 35% to 38% and losses amounted to billions of dollars"(Theng,Tan,Lwin, Shou-Boon,2010). Since technology has grow so much the past few years people are still learning new ways to download stolen software.

xxxxx ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Solution ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ The only solution for this problem is to include with all software a code that is activated when you purchase the software. An example would be when you buy a time card for prepared phones they only work after you purchase them at a register. This would be a good solution becasue the people who are sharing the software wouldnt be able to because the people who they are sharing it too would have to buy the software again because the one they would get for free doesnt work because it wasnt bought at a register.

‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Problem 2 ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍: Another problem that is becoming an increased problem is music piracy. In the past few years alot of musicians are losing millions because people are no longer buying there music they are just downloading the songs using torrents that let you download for free. People are downloading there music online instead of buying cds, because of this "sales of cds dropped by 16 percent worldwide. This caused the revenue to drop about 15.8 billion in 2009" Pfanner, E. (2010, January 21).

xxxxx ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Solution: ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ A solution for this problem would be for each cd to have a code that must be activated before you can listen to them. This would protect the musicians because they wont have to worry about people downloading the songs for free.

‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Problem 3: Another problem would be people breaking into websites to steal information that is important to a company. An example would be the hacking of the playstation network. In this situation millions of of people emails, address and credit card information was stolen.

xxxxx Solution: A ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ solution for this problem would be to prevent the hacking of these websites by updating the software on a periodical basis so its not always the same every day. Some ways that you can protect yourself from data lose, is to keep your passwords to yourself and change them once and awhile. This will make it so that if someone did get your password they would not have it for long.


 * On the next page, we will discuss the ethics on cyber crimes. **

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