Conclusion Software piracy is an illegal practice that may have benefits but at the same time has its downsides. From the reasons listed above I found that this can be difficult for the end user to not pirate the software because, according to a report published on the Internet, it simply costs too much [3]. But at the same time you can't say that the software is expensive because you have to take into consideration the developers who spent hundreds of hours creating the software. If companies want to fight software piracy then they will need to start by creating a DRM (digital rights management) system, after putting this application in place they can start setting up DRM strategies that will protect their company and its products from software piracy. Software piracy also has its economic arguments against software piracy, because companies are losing profits and when they lose profits they cannot invest in themselves, which leads the company to decline and jobs are lost on the way down , which causes the unemployment rate to increase slightly