Anti-Piracy Information
Software is the second most valuable asset of the digital age, behind only the information it manages and protects. It runs everything from personal computers to digital telephone and internet switches to our financial institutions. Imagine the outrage you feel when your personal financial information is compromised by a computer hacker. That is the same outrage software publishers feel when their software is pirated.
Although it is indispensably necessary, many organizations and consumers do not consider software as something that should be paid for, primarily because the internet has made its unauthorized reproduction so easy. We don’t tend to manage software the same way we manage more tangible property such as business equipment or homes. Poor software management increases not only the legal and financial risks for a company, since software is protected intellectual property under U.S. copyright law, but it can also lead to lost productivity and inefficiency.
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