What is Software Piracy?
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Piracy is the act of copying copyrighted material without authorized permission. Software piracy is the act of making illegal copies of DVDs, computer programs, books, etc, or using them or installing them without permission or right of the author.
- It is well known that software developers work hard to develop solid software programs. If those applications are pirated or stolen, the software developers will often be unable to generate the revenue required to continue supporting and expanding those applications. So such activities is categorized as illegal activities and as a cyber crime.
- Some examples of the piracy are:
- Making duplicate copies of movies, songs, software etc without the permission.
- Installing computer applications like games, software etc without buying.
- Making duplicates of books, notes etc without authors permission.
- Use of a single-licensed version of software on multiple computers.
- Use of key generator to generate a registration key that turns an evaluation version into licensed version.
