By Brian A. Cole
bcole1@hotmail.com
Introduction:
According to the SPA, Piracy is the unauthorized use of software.
Types of piracy include:
1) purchasing a single user license and loading it onto multiple computers or a server
("softloading");
2) making, distributing and/or selling copies that appear to be from an authorized source
("counterfeiting");
3) renting software without permission from the copyright holder;
4) distributing and/or selling software that has been "unbundled," or separated,
from the products with which it was intended to have been "bundled"; and
5) downloading copyrighted software from the Internet or bulletin boards without
permission from the copyright holder.
Why I wrote this page:
I Wrote this page in November 1998 while attending the University of Utah. I had to do a
research paper for Writing 2010, and decided piracy would be an interesting topic.
To my dismay, there wasn't really a site that had all of the information I was looking
for. There wasn't one with good links to articles, organizations, and everything else
necessary to do a good paper. Information in "academic journals" was hard to
find, and there was very little of it. Information from search engines was very
disorganized and incomplete. And the links from anti-piracy organizations only gave one
side of the story...No one would give links to the pirate groups themselves.
By writing this page, I hope someone won't have to go through all of the trouble I did, to
find the links and information necessary, to be able to write an informative and well done
paper...
Computer Piracy In General
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Piracy Research Web Site Started 3 Nov.
1998
Last Updated 21 Dec. 1998
All information believed to be accurate, but not guaranteed
© 1998, Brian A. Cole. All Rights Reserved.
bcole1@hotmail.com