The Negative Impact of Piracy

     Do you know what piracy is? Piracy is a familiar action to include things that tend to be classified as illegal and even criminal things. The activity includes copying or distribution of unauthorized software on copyrighted. According to Sterling (1999) cited in Panethiere,(2005)  piracy refers to “the activity of manufacturing unauthorized pirate copies of protected material and dealing with such copies by way of distribution and sale, example: Piracy of software applications, movies, songs in digital format (MP3, MP4) etc.”  Piracy has a lot negative impacts, which will be described below.