Computer Piracy
... when the unauthorized copies of software are placed on the disk when you buy a new PC. This occurs within computer dealers, because the market has become so competitive and many dealers try to add in more software for a better value so one presumes their corporation is the best. Renting means having software for temporary use, it is illegal to rent out software for a while with the intention on giving it back. For example, people can rent video games yet; they cannot rent software because software is loaded onto your computer and not just read by a drive such as a video game. Downloading and software counterfeiting are probably the two most common computer piracies that are active today. These are possibly the most common because of the easy access to the internet that we hold. Downloading is when a person connects to the internet to download unauthorized software from the internet. Just about any person can find software on the internet that they are interested in. Software counterfeiting is the illegal duplication of software. This occurs everyday in our world because of the CD writers/rewriters that people use and that have become so common to our world today. MP3s are a great example of software counterfeiting. It makes it easy to download a song in no time and takes up less than half the space it normally would. Though software computer piracy is the most common known to us today, there are other forms of piracy that are being dealt with. Emulation for example, is the process of imitating another machine through the use of software programs. This can allow a person to run different companies software on a different model computer, (i.e. Macintosh on an IBM, this also includes video games such as Nintendo, etc). “Pirates” construct emulation by creating a backup device to copy the ROM, (Read only memory), to a software format on the computer. The emulator is then used which loads the ROM, the combination of which imitates the hardware of the original...