In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and
             international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry,
             with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show
             that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated
             overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software industry's piracy
             losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software
             Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the
             business software in the United States was obtained illegally, which
             30 percent of the piracy occurs in corporate settings. In a corporate
             setting or business, every computer must have its own set of original
             software and the appropriate number of manuals. It is illegal for a
             corporation or business to purchase a single set of original software
             and then load that software onto more than one computer, or lend, copy
             or distribute software for any reason without the prior written
             consent of the software manufacturer. Many software managers are
             concerned with the legal compliance, along with asset management and
             costs at their organizations. Many firms involve their legal
             departments and human resources in regards to software distribution
             Information can qualify to be property in two ways; patent law
             and copyright laws which are creations of federal statutes, pursuant
             to Constitutional grant of legislative authority. In order for the
             government to prosecute the unauthorized copying of computerized
             information as theft, it must first rely on other theories of
             information-as-property. Trade secret laws are created by state law,
             and most jurisdictions have laws that criminalize the violations of a
             trade-secret holder's rights in the secret. The definition of a trade
             secret varies somewhat from state to state, but commonly have the same
             elements. For example, AThe information must be secret, Ano...