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Economic Consequences of Software Crime
In 1996 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software
cost $15.2 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $5.1 billion in
the North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses, due
to software crime, as high as $4.7 trillion. ....
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.... Constitutional authority. In order for the government to prosecute the
unauthorized copying of computerized information as theft, it must first
rely on other theories of information-as-property. Trade secret laws are
created by provincial law, and most jurisdictions have laws that
criminalize the violations of a trade-secret holder’s rights. The
definition of a trade secret varies somewhat from province to province, but
commonly have the same elements. For example, the information must be
secret, not of public knowledge or of general knowledge in the trade or
bus ....
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