ON ETHICS: Your former high school buddy invites you to join an entrepreneurial start-up that specializes in cracking the software that protects CDs and DVDs from being copied. He has developed the pioneering technology and lined up fi nancing. The worldwide demand for this technology appears to be enormous. He offers you the job of CEO and 10% of the equity of the fi rm.

You are currently unemployed. How would you respond to his proposition?