Youth & Piracy
Youth & Piracy
Piracy has taken a big impact in our today’s Moroccan society. This impact is so big that some of us ask ourselves how come people that commit piracy are working by themselves and are self-made people, somehow engineers. This act has taken a so large influence that it has become a common and usual action. The question that might be asked is do they really know what piracy is? Indeed, for some, many tend to think that the simple act of copying is not considered as pirating. In fact, piracy is when you use unlicensed software or a part of it for any kind of use, and consequently prohibit its authors from earning money from it. One of the biggest today’s problems in our Kingdom is that this informal sector is driving Morocco in a tremendous loss in terms of economy and integrity at a global scale. Unfortunately, youngsters are grandly responsible of many forms of piracy such as illegal downloads and/or software copying. In the meanwhile, is the average Moroccan ready to afford authentic software at a relatively high price? Whatever the answer might be, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to commit piracy, and one should greatly be submitted to severe penalties because it is of course in part because of piracy that our country’s economic health is affected. But why do we commit piracy, and what can be done to decrease the impact of this phenomenon.
One of the first questions people should ask themselves is why do Moroccans and/or others commit acts of piracy almost every single day? Why does the phenomenon’s expansion seem unstoppable, despite Morocco’s fight against piracy placed as one of its top priorities? In fact, the phenomenon is still getting bigger and bigger due to the unstoppable progress of technology. Our country is still losing over the equivalent of over 200 Million US Dollars. Many good development aspects of Morocco have given the great chance and opportunity to piracy to experience an incredible level of growth. Indeed, according to the...
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- Date Submitted: 10/30/2008 02:41 PM
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