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Consider the following scenario. Your organization X purchased licensed software from company Y to Essay

Consider the following scenario. Your organization X purchased licensed software from company Y to operate a key piece of equipment. A second, similar piece of equipment is purchased to replace the original equipment. Your employee downloads another copy (which is available from organization Y through the internet) of the software that was licensed for the original equipment, as that software was being removed from the original equipment. Shortly after this, a letter from company Y requesting payment of $25,000 arrives in the mail due to the software download was tracked to your Internet Provider (IP) address. At no time did organization X use two copies of the same software. If you were the owner of organization X, what would you do? Choose from the options listed below and provide a logical explanation describing why you chose that option.Additional details: organization X is a small company with 6 employees and an annual revenue of $450,000. After testing the software on the new equipment, they determined it would not work (no income was generated from the software). Options:1. Pay the $25,000 and make the situation go away.2. Hire an attorney with appropriate expertise to explain that it was a mistake, after all, if company Y did not want their software downloaded they should not have put a download link on the internet.3. Create another option and support it with appropriate sources