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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. On the nex ....
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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 gene ....
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