What can be done to curb the upcoming and alarming piracy?

[Daniel Mutinda Munuve]

Piracy has become an issue in both developed and developing countries, so there is a need to protect our programmers, musician and other industrious people against this.
Am hoping to receive your views and opinions

[Noble Kelly]

Just like theft, those who want to pirate files will pirate them no matter how many deterrents there are. It is a matter of teaching right from wrong. What I usually tell my students is that crime usually starts small (cheating, piracy, etc.) because it is easy to get away with it and human nature will cause some people to up the stakes. Eventually they do something major and then get caught. So like gambling, they get somewhat addicted to piracy and think just because everyone is doing it then it is okay. Somehow you have to make the consequences hit home--it has to affect them personally.