how does software piracy affect businesses?
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its like selling clothes, but people get it for nothing. \n\ndoesnt sound good heh?
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Piracy of any kind is always advantagious to the recipient, but if piracy were made legal - the creators and designers of software/movies/games etc. would recieve no money, and therefore would stop making thier product.\nAs long as piracy is illegal, designers are forced to achieve the highest quality in thier field in order to compete in the market place.
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If you are also providing the product keys and cd's, and are not re-using the software elsewhere this would be completely legal.\n\nBut if you plan on retaining ownership of the software for use on another computer, the software on the laptop would be considered pirated.
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mostly companies of anti-virus software \nto sell their software better
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piracy is so prevalent on the net, that it's kinda hard to stop all of it.  I know some sights are easier to get to and control than others.
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The most effective way to prevent software theft is to make software people do not want to steal.  Alas, this is not a profitable venture.\n\nGenerally, it costs more to keep the crackers out than you gain from keeping them out.  Your best bet is to use a simple serial number type solution.  Almost any solution you use can be broken by just making copies of the CD and a CD key.  CD ISOs (digital copies of CDs) can easily be produced and copied onto CDs by pirates.  There are tricks to prevent this but most of them will cause a few legitimate customers to find that your CDs won't work on their systems.  Many of the techniques used to prevent software theft anger the legitimate users.
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Use a trial or BUY it.  Pirating software is illegal, and only serves to drive the price up higher.
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Some of the consequences are:\n\nCost - Acompany with no firewall should be prepared to spend a lot of money on tech support.  There will also be lost revenue through a decrease in production, network availability and worker downtime.\n\nReputation - If your company is hacked into what do your customers think?  Typically people will only do business with a company that has a good track record for security.  Public defacement of the website is very visible and has quite a ripple effect.\n\nLegal - Companies can be held liable for damages if they do not adhere to "best practice".  This means that if your site is compromised and then used as a springboard for an attack on someone else, your company's pockets may be hit with the bill for recovery.\n\nThis should get you started...
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Yes, you can pirate open source software. Even open source software has licensing requirements, and if you violate the terms of the license, you have pirated it.\n\nFor example, the GNU Lesser General Public License, which is the license OpenOffice uses, does not allow you to take code without credit, or modify code without crediting the original code's author, or to make changes to code without noting your changes, and you cannot replace the effects of functions in the root classes.\n\nIf you did any of that, you would be pirating the software.\n\nDepending on the Linux distro, different licensing schemes apply, as well.\n\nThat said, no, proprietary software isn't the opposite of legal software. All software is effectively built upon something else's license; if not the OS, then a compiler or an IDE or some other such product. All of those are licensed, unless you built, from scratch, your own OS, programs, etc.
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its open my dear dude\n they want every people to work with them\njust like windows bill gates know most of them use pirated versions but he doesnt say anythin\nbecoz he wants more and more people 2 use it
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Product keys come with your PURCHASE of the product.  This is the wrong venue to solict software piracy.
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That depends on what programme you use.\nBut be aware that it is illegal to download for copying and also most are virus infected any time you download your increasing the chance of virus and trojan attacks on your pc.
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Guess ur talking about downloading illegal stuff, cause otherwise the server actually keeps a log of what u have downloaded so they would know.\nIf you are using rare software, encrypted software or servers that are only available to "members" its very hard to be caught.\nUsually if u share much, u have a greater chance of getting caught (they go for big fry). Otherwise no worries. :)\nFuck the MPIAA etc.
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I'm not 100% sure what you are asking.  The hard drive won't be affected in the sense of anything happening to it, but it will be accessed so that the file pieces others are downloading from you can be read and transmitted.
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I believe that any use of "file-sharing" services puts your computer at some kind of risk.  You don't really know what it is that you're getting, and giving other people access to files in your computer is inherently dangerous.\n\nIf that weren't enough, you are engaging in an ILLEGAL practice which could result in more serious penalites than you may imagine.  The Motion Picture Association Of America is prosecuting all instances of film piracy.  Do yourself a favor--get out of this dangerous business.
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Oh what a lot of bull....   it has nothing to do with conspiracies, dictatorships or the government...\n\nWhen you say "downloading", you're talking about getting a free copy of a commerical product.   Somebody made that product, and expects to get paid for doing so.    What you're doing is stealing...  but it's happening in such numbers that it's just not practical to prosecute every individual who scores a few bootleg movies...\nThe movie. music and game industries are directing their energies to proscuting the people who turn theft into a big business.... they steal the product and pass it on because they think its cool to "beat the system", or because they have some convoluted political agenda...\nNow, can I come by and take somehting that you worked for? Your car?  Is it OK If I take that and give it to a stranger on the street?  You wouldn't mind?  It is, after all, politically correct ...  :-)
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I would imagine that most of the "legalese" is a necessary evil so that they can protect themselves from litigation for damages stemming from misuse of their product. For EULA's (End user license agreements), I use a little free program called "EULAlyzer 1.1". It reads the EULA and scans it for "interesting" words and phrases. Find it at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/