4. Know what your software licenses allow. Keep all your licenses in one place and identify which ones allow employees to use at home and which don`t. Also compare the inventory with your license agreements and remove illegal software. 3. Regular inventories of required software. Make sure your employees record the product name, version number, and serial number of each software installed on each computer. You should also perform unannounced audits. Data from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) showed that the Philippines has a software piracy rate of 70%. The commercial value of pirated software was estimated at $338 million. According to BSA, low-income countries have a higher rate of software piracy than high- and middle-income countries. Torrent downloads and movie piracy are endemic in the Philippines, and although people engage in this type of activity, laws are enacted to prevent it. Penalties are imposed, and that is the price to pay for illegal activity.

The law, which is divided into 31 sections divided into eight chapters, criminalizes various types of crimes, including illegal access (hacking), data intrusion, device misuse, cybersquatting, computer crimes such as computer fraud, content-related crimes such as and spam, and other crimes. The Act also reaffirms existing laws against child pornography, an offence under Republic Act No. 9775 (Child Pornography Act of 2009), and defamation, an offence under Section 355 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, and also criminalizes them when committed using a computer system. Finally, the law contains a „catch-all clause” that makes all offences currently punishable under the revised Penal Code equally punishable under the law when committed with a computer, with harsher penalties than those provided for by the revised Penal Code alone. The first draft laws against cybercrime and data protection began in 2001 under the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the former Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Council (ITECC), forerunner of the Information and Communication Technology Commission (CICT) and now the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT). with the Legal and Regulatory Committee, chaired by Atty. The creation of the laws was an initiative of the Subcommittee on Information Security and Privacy, chaired by Albert P. dela Cruz, then Chairman of the Philippine Computer Emergency Response Team (PHCERT), as well as the Chief of the Computer Crime and Fraud Division (ACCFD), Elfren Meneses of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Administrative and operational functions were performed by the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) as the secretariat of the ICCT. [10] The original version of the Act was shared with various other organizations and interest groups during this period. The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is one of the first laws in the Philippines to specifically criminalize computer crime, which had no strong precedent in Philippine jurisdiction before the law was passed. While laws such as the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 (Republic Act No.

8792[8]), these laws provided no legal basis to criminalize crimes committed on a computer: for example, Onel De Guzman, the computer programmer accused of allegedly writing the ILOVEYOU computer worm, was ultimately not prosecuted by Philippine authorities because there was no legal basis at the time of his arrest. to prosecute him under the applicable Philippine laws. [9] However, software piracy has its origins in the software company itself. Without appropriate controls, these resources can be compromised. Software developers and publishers need to think about the efforts they should make to protect their property rights. There will always be „pirates” attacking and trying to break through the wall. With the functionality of software applications for everyday life, without a doubt, it can cost so much. But some people couldn`t afford vendor application software, so they resorted to pirated software on the Internet. But this is not a reason to resort to any illegal activity.

It is punishable by law. The copyrights and patents belong to the owner and you have to pay for them to use them. 1. Develop a clear software policy for your business. The BSA suggests that the policy explain how employees can legally acquire software, and that you provide each employee with a copy of the policy. The Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international alliance representing software and e-commerce developers, lists how software piracy can be prevented: The government plays an important role in eliminating piracy. The strict application and further development of the law should be observed.