You are the proprietor of a fledgling computer graphics company in Shanghai, China. The sophisticated business application software you need for your business normally sells for 2,900 renminbi (around $350) at computer stores in Shanghai and online. But with an income of just over $5,000 a year, you cannot afford to buy the original graphics software for your business. An associate has told you she can get you all the software you need, and more, for only $30. Yet, you have financially strapped friends who code software for the global software companies that make the very programs you need.
3-5 Do your personal circumstances make it ethical for you to purchase the pirated software?
3-6 What would you do if you were told of a new government effort to actively punish users of pirated software?
3-7 Does a software company bear any responsibility for subcontracting work to low wage markets where its finished product is unaffordable for the same coders who worked on it?