Glencoe Accounting

Chapter 4: Transactions that Affect Assets, Liabilities, and Owner's Capital

Extend: Matter of Ethics

Software Piracy

• Using one of the Web sites below or your favorite news Web site, research recent cases of software piracy in the news.

• BusinessWeek
  www.businessweek.com

• Los Angeles Times
  www.latimes.com

• Locate one article of interest and prepare a summary of the facts of the case. Include the name of the article, the date it was published, who was affected, and if the perpetrators were penalized. Share your opinion on software piracy as it relates to large and small software companies.