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The copyright infringement of software (often referred to as software piracy) refers to several practices which involve the unauthorized copying of computer software. Copyright infringement of this kind is extremely common. Most countries have copyright laws which apply to software, but the degree of enforcement varies. After a dispute over WTO membership between Iran and USA led to the legalization in Iran of the unconstrained distribution of software (see Iran and copyright issues), there have been fears that world governments might use copyright politically. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  filebuzz.com 473px x 640px | 74.30kB [source page] Added July 04 2007 | Visits 652  images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com 353px x 470px | 15.30kB [source page] Copying your favorite software is easy to do but just because you can doesn t mean you should From Yahoo Image Search: "software piracy"  philoservices.com admin Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:11:46 GM Most viruses were written in order to prevent . software piracy. though, some were written by some programmers in order to propagate their malicious activities and hence, these virus programs end up infecting a large community of computer ... From Google Blog Search: "software piracy"  eetimes.com Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:12:31 GMT+00:00 EETimes.com The company said in a statement that " software piracy in the EDA market space can undermine the competitiveness of semiconductor, telecommunications and ...  irishtimes.com Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:47:21 GMT+00:00 Irish Times Although the cartridges can be used for more than pirated games, Nintendo argued that they are responsible for a fall in its software sales in Europe. ...  techtree.com Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:51:58 GMT+00:00 III - Open Source Software Techtree.com Continuing with our series on anti- piracy and how to overcome it, we'll today look at the core of piracy in PCs -- the Operating System. ... From Google News Search: "software piracy" What are the effect of software piracy in Indonesia? Q. How effective are the law being constructed and uphold in other countries? How do they differ from Indonesia? What are the effects of upholding a tight law on software piracy? Asked by so3r1pt0 - Mon Jun 26 10:54:36 2006 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Many Indonesian can learn computer and many programs for cheap and easier. But still the computer price is expensive for most Indonesian people. And the software is using English which is not a common language that easy to learned/understood by most Indonesian. So the effect for any software piracy in Indonesia is likely to blame Indonesia as a jerk country where all people seems like bad pirates. There is no advantage whatsoever to Indonesia in software piracy. Anyhow it's another country job to put Indonesia in bad or worst economic situation, so they can take over the advantage on Indonesia in the near future. DO NOT forget other big five countries who are playing behind the Indonesia's economic scene in any aspect related. So this… [cont.] Answered by Nick Name - Wed Jun 28 05:57:55 2006 What is a cool name for a paper about software piracy? Q. its about how there should be more restrictions and how it hurts the economy arguing over others saying there is nothing wrong with it. THANKS Asked by PaperBoy - Sat May 17 13:00:45 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. Pirate Hunter Answered by Old Fart - Sat May 17 13:10:49 2008 Is Windows expensive because of software piracy?
Q. If people didn't copy Windows installation discs and/or copy and use Windows product keys on more than one computer, would Windows have been cheaper than it is now? Asked by davidlee099 - Sat Oct 31 13:52:17 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. heres a fun article. the comments are better then the article. piracy has a little to do with it...MS has to cover the expense of international investigations and enforcement cooperation. but dont forget that software engineers arent cheap. MS has to cover the cost of support for the current psoftware. also the R&D needed for the other software and money losing hardware (Xbox) Answered by expletive_xom - Fri Nov 6 03:35:55 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "software piracy" |
