Computer Piracy and Ethics Quiz

Directions:
To the best of your ability, choose whether the following conditions are "Legal" or "Illegal."

  1. A high school instructor photocopies two chapters of a textbook to be handed to her class every semester.

    Legal
    Illegal

  2. An instructor wants to use a piece of software for his class next week but does not have time to order it. He copies his friends program and uses it for his class.

    Legal
    Illegal

  3. An elementary instructor who wants her students to use a certain piece of software copies the original twenty times and erases the disks when the students are done.

    Legal
    Illegal

  4. A school district media specialist buys one piece of software, copies it, and sends the copies to all schools within the district.

    Legal
    Illegal

  5. A school administrator purchases a piece of software which costs $500, copies it, and puts the copy in a safe place just in case something happens to the original disk.

    Legal
    Illegal

  6. When she purchased a piece of software, an instructor discovered that there are two disks included in the package, one marked Working Copy and the other marked Backup. Since her friend wants to use the same software, the instructor lets her friend use the Backup while she uses the disk marked Working Copy.

    Legal
    Illegal



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