Piracy Crackdown

As long as there will be minimal security features included with software, there will always be an abundance of software piraters. Naval Academy Has Seized about 100 student computers that are suspected of containing unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Then who’s to blame? If software companies were more serious about piracy, then shouldn’t there be higher tactical measures to prevent piracy from occurring? It isn’t a common everyday thing that someone would steal software from Fry’s Electronics. drive to an electronics store and physically buy it. This is a bad way to prevent users from file-sharing because bandwidth management programs can only do so much. More people who will be hired solely because of piracy, and more people will be setenced or fined for computer fraud. I will know that there are minimal chances of getting caught let alone being prosecuted for it. Although file-sharing programs have allowed users to freely distribute illegal copies of software it is not entirely their fault.

Because people are able to pirate software so easily and people are let go being unpunished for doing so raise the amount of people doing it. In the article it explains how universities restrict ways in dealing with file-sharing programs such as using bandwidth management tools to block or restrict file swapping. It is possible for me with a cable modem to download some of the most valuable software locked under glass at Fry’s Electronics stores at retail value of $999. That creates the chain reaction of more people who will pirate.