1. The Ethics of Software Sharing
... affect those companies but it has an effect on the economy as a whole as well. In the Journal of Business Ethics, the article titled "The Morality of Software Piracy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis" mentions that, "theft of intellectual property" costs the U.S. more than US$40 billion annually in lost sales and royalties ... Hence, the maxim is logically invalid; either there is no such thing as stealing, so the maxim is invalid, or stealing is wrong..." "(Ethics in Computing Culture pg. 21) The final theory that backs up my claim is Contractarianism. This theory says that people are out to p...
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