1. Software: Piracy

2. What are the ethical issues associated with a particular IT development?
South Africa is making progress in the battle against software piracy
Reducing piracy further would deliver significant benefits for local consumers, local software and services firms, small businesses, and the society at large

3. Who is responsible?
The IDC organization is responsible to for making sure that piracy levels in South Africa drop

4. Who is accountable?
I think that the South African Government is accountable for the rising levels in piracy because they are not strict enough on enforcing these policies

5. What policies, rules or laws apply to the scenario?
Update national copyright laws to implement World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS)

6. What are the alternative ethical decisions?
Increase public education and awareness of the value of intellectual property and the risks of using unlicensed software
Create strong enforcement mechanisms as required by the World Trade Organization (WTO)

7. What are the consequences of these decisions?
The BSA-IDC Global Software Piracy Study covers piracy of all packaged software that runs on personal computers, including desktops, laptops, and ultra-portables
IDC used proprietary statistics for software and hardware shipments and enlisted IDC analysts in more than sixty countries to confirm software piracy trends