A small company offers you a programming job. You are to work on new versions of its software product to disable copy protection and other access controls on electronic books. (For this exercise, assume you are in a country that does not Outlaw tools to circumvent copy protection as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act does in the United States. (Links to an external site.)) The company's program enables buyers of e-books to read their eBooks on a variety of Hardware devices (fair uses). Customers could also use the program to make many unauthorized copies of copyrighted books. The company's webpage implicitly encourages this practice, particularly for college students who want to avoid the cost of e-textbooks. Analyze the ethics of accepting the job. Find relevant sections from the ACM Code of Ethics.
Directions:
Describe the background, then identify the issues , problems or questions that you think are important. You should reference at least three (3) peer reviewed articles from the online Atkins Library as your source. Include the most relevant aspects of the ACM Code of Ethics in your reasoning/conclusion.
Citations must be in APA format. The citation for the ACM Code of Ethics is listed below:
Wolf, Gotterbarn, D., & Kirkpatrick, M. (2019). ACM Code of Ethics: Looking Back and
Forging Ahead. Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer
Science Education, 801–802. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287519