3.+Copyright+and+Software

According to (Sydney Morning Herald, 2009) “Worldwide piracy rates rose from 38 per cent of software in business and home computers in 2007 to 41 per cent in 2008” and “In Australia, 26 per cent of all PC software is pirated,” honestly, this is not alarming to me as it is quite easy for amateurs to infringe copyright laws protecting software. Judging by these rates it is obvious that authors need to be protected in order to keep their income going.
 * Why do software authors need to be protected by copyright? **

**How does software piracy become a cost to the Australian computer industry each year? & ** **What is the result of software piracy? ** 

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