For each of the following, determine whether the practice is legal, illegal, or iffy. Defend your answer.
a. You sell a copy of a computer game to a friend.
b. You forward an email from your boss to a coworker without permission
c. You sell your old PC with the software still on it, but you keep the original copies of the software.
d. You download a piece of shareware but don’t pay for it.
e. ou frequently use a piece of shareware but don’t pay for it.
f. You install your company’s software on your home computer.
g. You frequently play a freeware game.
h. You install software on your computer and the laptop of your college-bound sibling using the same disk.
I. You copy a picture posed on Tumblr and add it to your personal web page.
j. You buy one license and install it on computers throughout a lab.
. illegal
b. legal; should always ask permission before forwarding an email
c. illegal
d. legal
e. iffy
f. iffy, probably depends on company policy
g. legal
h. iffy, depends on licensing for the software
i. iffy, depends on the original image's permissions
j. illegal, if the license does not explicitly allow multiple installations
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