Abstract
This chapter introduces the nature, evolution, and development of cyber (digital) crimes in the context of the modern digital revolution with particular stress on software piracy and copyright infringement. Firstly, it overviews the various forensic implications of cyber criminality in its various forms and goes on to talk about the detection, preservation, and forensic utilisation of digital evidence, as well as its relationship to global cyber legislation. Next, it concentrates on exploring the fields of digital and software forensics and then software piracy as a cyber crime. The chapter then discusses the forensics of the infringement of software copyright, especially in terms of its legal and judicial complexity. Finally, it concludes by explaining how all the various complex issues bear on the crucial role of the cyber forensic consultant experts in the collection, interpretation and presentation of the digital evidence in a manner that is both judicially efficient and convincing.
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