The Trend of Anti-Software Piracy in Saudi Arabia: An Ethical Point of View

As business world increasingly globalizes, the use of information technology becomes indispensable. Accordingly, the intellectual property right becomes vulnerable to any kinds of violation. This includes software and apps violation. The violation and piracy of intellectual property rights of software and apps influences economical devastation to developing companies and countries. The aim of this study is to present the trend of anti-software piracy in Saudi Arabia. It provides an analyses of software piracy versus anti-software piracy issue based on various ethical theories. Furthermore, we highlight the effects of software piracy and to support our arguments, we used a real case study and analysed it in the ethical theories of Kantianism, Act utilitarianism, Rule utilitarianism and Social contract. To provide a comprehensive study, we also analyze the ethical issues of action on fighting software piracy, as known as anti-software piracy. We analyzed that the arguments for granting anti-software piracy should be improved.