Ware piracy and its effectsIdentification and description of the problemCopyright laws are perhaps those laws that are violated the most by individuals on a daily basis. This is because one may not be informed about these laws or because not much is done to enforce them. Furthermore, some countries in the world do not have copyright laws. Software piracy is a violation of copyright law because you copy the data contained in the medium to another medium without the consent of the owner of the software. When you purchase software you are not purchasing the content of the software and therefore it is not your property. Instead, you purchase a license to use the software in accordance with the license agreement. Software companies invest a lot of time and money into creating software, and the company relies on sales of the software for its survival. If illegal copies of software are made, companies make no money and may therefore be forced into bankruptcy. Computer hacking can be compared to theft as you steal someone else's goods and use them without paying for them. Up to $13 billion is lost to software piracy every year, and to overcome these costs the company is forced to increase the prices of its products. The brands are owned by their respected companies and have the right to protect their properties. The IT background knowledge of the IssueSoftware is contained on disk or CD-ROM. Pirate copying can be easily done by disk software by copying from one disk to another. For CD-ROMs, you need a CD-ROM burner, or you copy the contents to a large hard drive and then to a floppy disk. There are some underground bulletin boards (BBSs) that contain pirated software. A user who accesses one of these BBSs can download the full version of the pirated software provided that he too can give something in return. On the Internet there are binary newsgroups such as alt.binaries.warez, WWW pages and FTP sites that also contain pirated software. On the Newsgroup the Files are sent at the request of anonymous users. As a result, people who have access to the Internet can recover these software programs for free. The person publishing the pirated software may be from a country that does not have copyright laws. These methods used in software piracy are difficult to stop due to the fact that it occurs on the Internet and between different individual forms...... of paper ......a new copy protection is unlikely to be breached. Excessive copy protection could drive away legitimate consumers. Until now, politicians have not delved into the problem of software piracy and copyright because they think there are bigger problems to solve. Once legislation is passed and people are made aware that software piracy is a crime, we may see a decline in software piracy. In relations with other countries, a lot of bureaucracy but also a committed government is necessary. For something to happen on a political level it could take years before the effects are seen. It has the best chance of solving the problem in the long term. From a technological point of view, the problem could only be solved in the short term, but the implementation would be rapid. Sources Internet Page WWW.pcworld.com/News December 96 Business Software Alliance Software Piracy Fact Sheet Computer Ethics Tom Forester and PerryMorrison Chapter 3 "Software Theft" page 51 -72 CNN Computer Connection December 96 - January 97 PC Magazine entire volume 96 Reuters InfoWorld, Vol.19, No.6Reuters 6 February 97 Media Daily, 30 January 1997 Article on FBI crackdown on software pirates

Topic > Ware piracy and its effectsIdentification and description of the problemCopyright laws are perhaps those laws that are violated the most by individuals on a daily basis. This is because one may not be informed about these laws or because not much is done to enforce them. Furthermore, some countries in the world do not have copyright laws. Software piracy is a violation of copyright law because you copy the data contained in the medium to another medium without the consent of the owner of the software. When you purchase software you are not purchasing the content of the software and therefore it is not your property. Instead, you purchase a license to use the software in accordance with the license agreement. Software companies invest a lot of time and money into creating software, and the company relies on sales of the software for its survival. If illegal copies of software are made, companies make no money and may therefore be forced into bankruptcy. Computer hacking can be compared to theft as you steal someone else's goods and use them without paying for them. Up to $13 billion is lost to software piracy every year, and to overcome these costs the company is forced to increase the prices of its products. The brands are owned by their respected companies and have the right to protect their properties. The IT background knowledge of the IssueSoftware is contained on disk or CD-ROM. Pirate copying can be easily done by disk software by copying from one disk to another. For CD-ROMs, you need a CD-ROM burner, or you copy the contents to a large hard drive and then to a floppy disk. There are some underground bulletin boards (BBSs) that contain pirated software. A user who accesses one of these BBSs can download the full version of the pirated software provided that he too can give something in return. On the Internet there are binary newsgroups such as alt.binaries.warez, WWW pages and FTP sites that also contain pirated software. On the Newsgroup the Files are sent at the request of anonymous users. As a result, people who have access to the Internet can recover these software programs for free. The person publishing the pirated software may be from a country that does not have copyright laws. These methods used in software piracy are difficult to stop due to the fact that it occurs on the Internet and between different individual forms...... of paper ......a new copy protection is unlikely to be breached. Excessive copy protection could drive away legitimate consumers. Until now, politicians have not delved into the problem of software piracy and copyright because they think there are bigger problems to solve. Once legislation is passed and people are made aware that software piracy is a crime, we may see a decline in software piracy. In relations with other countries, a lot of bureaucracy but also a committed government is necessary. For something to happen on a political level it could take years before the effects are seen. It has the best chance of solving the problem in the long term. From a technological point of view, the problem could only be solved in the short term, but the implementation would be rapid. Sources Internet Page WWW.pcworld.com/News December 96 Business Software Alliance Software Piracy Fact Sheet Computer Ethics Tom Forester and PerryMorrison Chapter 3 "Software Theft" page 51 -72 CNN Computer Connection December 96 - January 97 PC Magazine entire volume 96 Reuters InfoWorld, Vol.19, No.6Reuters 6 February 97 Media Daily, 30 January 1997 Article on FBI crackdown on software pirates