Piracy Brings Down Economy

The economy is being damaged by piracy. Piracy is the unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted material. Currently, piracy is being done constantly by many people all over the world. (Walter Kidney) These file swappers (the people) are downloading and trading software for their personal use through the internet by certain software programs, such as KaZAa. Not paying for software is hurting the business of software publishers dramatically. However, copyright breakers might not understand how severely they are hurting the software industry. Millions of dollars are being spent on copyright protection software, but they continue to break due to Hackers, and they get downloaded from file swappers. Business' end up spending money they don't have, which doesn't enable them to make new software. Also, since there is a lack of funds very few workers are hired, therefore slowing down the production process. …