IntroductionFor thousands of years, maybe since the beginning of time, people search for better ways to improve the quality of life. And for the past hundred of years, computers eventually took stand in the world. Today, computers are generally used as a productive, educational, communication, and...

Piracy In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 per...