Software Piracy

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Software Piracy

• By Jakub Lapinski

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History

• Has been around since the 70s when the first
  personal computers came out on the market
  
• Early forms of software piracy consisted of
  groups and clubs where computer geeks exchanged
  the lasted software with one another.
  
• Soon after this Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) .
  This allowed people to communicate with one
  another using phone modems. BBS made it a lot
  easy for people to share information and
  different software.
• When internet became mainstream in 1992 so did
  software piracy. Internet provided a very easy
  way to transfer information to other people at
  speeds that were impossible before.

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Types of Software Piracy

• CD-R Piracy The illegal act of copying software
  using CD-R recording technology.
  
• Hard-disk Loading Occurs when an individual or
  company sells computers with preloaded with
  pirated software.
  
• Internet Piracy Uploading of commercial
  software to the internet for anyone to copy of
  download.
  
• Soft Lifting When a person purchases a single
  software program and installs it onto several
  different computers.
  

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Most Common Ways to Pirate

• BitTorrent BitTorrent is a peer-assisted,
  digital content delivery platform that provides
  the fastest, most efficient means of
  distributing, discovering, and consuming large,
  high-quality files on the Web.
• P2P Includes programs such as Naspster, Kazaa,
  Bear Share, and Limewire. P2P uses the bandwidth
  of the users on the actually network. The network
  is used to share content files containing audio,
  video, data or anything in digital format.
• mIRC is a shareware Internet Relay Chat client
  for Windows. Although it serves admirably as a
  simple chat utility, its integrated scripted
  language makes it extremely extensible and
  versatile.

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Ethical Aspect

• Justification The most commonly used excuse for
  using pirated software is that everyone else is
  doing it. For many people going along with the
  crowd is all the justification they need.
• Morality Why people use pirated software is
  really just a matter of personal opinion
  regarding stealing. Most people dont see it any
  differently then taking an extra hour for their
  lunch break or making phone calls during company
  time.
• Responsibility Most people put the
  responsibility of software piracy on the actual
  software companies. Pirates are in it for the
  thrill of trying to crack the latest program
  before another group does. So they compare it to
  leaving your keys in the ignition of your which
  caused it to get stolen. People would say that it
  is your own fault for being irresponsible. So if
  a software company doesnt do a good enough job a
  protecting their software its their own fault it
  was pirated in the first place.

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• Melanie Griffith said in the movie A Stranger
  Among Us, Within every honest man is a thief
  struggling to get out.