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Software piracy

Term used to describe the act of illegally using, copying and/or distributing software without purchasing the software or having the legal rights. The majority of software purchased today is purchased as a one-site license, meaning that only one computer may have that software installed on it at one time. Copying that software to multiple computers or sharing it with your friend without multiple licenses is considered illegal and is considered software piracy.

Computer Hope held a website poll for the month of October in the year 2000 where it asked its users "Do you believe it is ok to Pirate software?" Below are the results of that poll.

Yes 35.59%
No 31.86%
Sometimes 11.64%
Yes, to test  14.92%
When money is short 5.99%

  • Additional information about software piracy and why Computer Hope does not support it can be found here.

Also see: CD-KEY, ESA, Keygen, Software, Warez, WGA

 

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