Legalizing pirated software

Alright i'm use piracy as well i admit. All of you people who said yes have to use your heads. If piracy was legal and everyone did it. Then the people who created the games, musics, books would lose money, and they wont make any more. It will be kill tons of media and entertainment. Just keep what your doing. For centuries hard work and effort to produce a product have been rewarded,Have you ever been to school?

Whats the point of spending millions of dollars and years of work onto a game like COD Black Ops 2 which hundreds of thousands of people enjoy and pay good money for just to have it stolen,e g PIRATED,whats the point of effort and money if theres no reward? Anyone who says that the celebreties don't care about the money they don't get so it's okay to pirate their music. That way of thinking is stupid: that's like saying it's alright to steal from the rich just because they are rich.

They worked to give it to you. Some people think that piracy isn't considered stealing because it's not «snatching» the thing away. Music or games are not phisical goods but they are considered as a service you buy to use, just like receiving a massage or paying the delivery guy. You can't bring the massage home neither is a delivery a good but you still pay for it so why wouldn't you pay for music, games or programs?

When you don't buy your music, there are certainly some money losses in shops like HMV or the videoclub because they have less customers. When you have less customers, you go bankrupt. This means there are people who looses their jobs. That's money the government won't get in taxes this year.

That's money they can't use to build roads or public buildings! They'll need to spend it on the bs for the people who lost their jobs. Even if we allow piracy to be legal, there's still another law in wich you need to think: the copyright infringement.

That's right, it's illegal to steal the music but it's also illegal to appropriate yourself from their stuff! Anyway, there's so much bad things about free downloading I think we all know that, we just don't like going against it because we are dependent of it.

Get over your addiction! Pay what you use. If we put aside the legal definitions of "theft" and "copyright infringement" for a moment, piracy is fundamentally the acquisition of non-physical goods without going through the intended payment route. Getting something for free when the people who made it wanted money.

Of course, this has been a thing for a long time - videotaping films from broadcast television, borrowing books or CDs, listening to pirate radio stations.

But the internet has made piracy possible on an unprecedented scale, to the point where it will definitely affect revenue streams. Because here's the thing Making films and TV shows and software costs money. It costs a lot of money, and the reason people do it is because they expect to get that money back by selling the stuff they made.

If they don't get that money back, they'll stop making the things you like. There are a lot of commonly used arguments in favor of piracy, but they all seem to be set against a backdrop of one major social trend: the culture of entitlement. I look at some of the arguments in the yes column, and they all seem to be rooted in the concept that people should be able to have access to whatever they want: "Corporations make enough money" "Some people can't afford to pay for things they enjoy" "I should be able to get what I want for free" Corporations make money because some people are paying for things.

Using that as an excuse not to pay is completely selfish, because you are relying upon other people to act correctly in order to make life easier for yourself. If nobody paid for films, then studios would just stop making them.

If you can't afford something that you want, that someone else has spent time and money making, then you shouldn't get it. You aren't necessarily entitled to have access to everything that you want. Another type of argument that people use is to claim that it's the outdated business models that drive them to piracy: "I only pirate things to check them out, and if I like them then I pay for them" "This wasn't available where I live, so I could only pirate it" "This was only available with a subscription, and I wanted to buy it a la carte, so I pirated it" While I have sympathy with this argument, it doesn't hold water.

If you don't agree with the way a company chooses to sell their product, then just don't get the product. If enough people feel the same way, the company will change their model. Forcing them to do so by taking the content for free is not morally defensible. To the man who said he wanted his products to be free and for people to try, wouldn't software cost money? Wouldn't the amount of physical and mental labor deserves some? You might get feedback, but you can't improve without money for better software.

Online piracy — The fastest-growing form of piracy is Internet piracy. With the growing number of users online, and with the rapidly increasing connection speeds, the exchange of software on the Internet has attracted an extensive following. In the past, bulletin board systems BBS were the only place where one could download pirated software.

Software piracy may have a cheaper price point, but there are many dangers that software pirates should be aware of.

Keep your PC secure by only purchasing software from authorized dealers. Software piracy is a major issue affecting organizations and developers alike. Consequently, companies need to implement anti-piracy protection systems on their software-based products. Legal protection — Most companies make sure their software is protected legally by a user agreement. Letting consumers know that making unauthorized copies is against the law will help prevent people from unknowingly breaking piracy laws.

Product key — The most popular anti-piracy system is a product key, a unique combination of letters and numbers used to differentiate copies of the software. A product key ensures that only one user can use the software per purchase. Tamper-proofing — Some software programs have built-in protocols that cause the program to shut down and stop working if the source code is tampered with or modified. Watermarking — Watermarks, company logos, or names are often placed on software interfaces to indicate that products are legitimately obtained, and are not illegal copies.

What is Software Piracy: Software piracy has become a worldwide issue with China, the United States and India being the top three offenders. Types of Software Piracy: It seems that illegal software is available anywhere, to anyone, at any time.

A number of activities could be considered software piracy , with the classic example being someone who makes multiple copies of a program and sells the copies. Piracy of software is generally prosecuted under copyright infringement laws, under the argument that piracy infringes upon the copyrights held by the developer of the software.

Since the s, people have been referring to instances of copyright infringement as piracy, and with the advent of the computer age, piracy began to explode because it became easy to do, and potentially highly lucrative. Software pirates can make a great deal of money by purchasing a single legitimate copy of a piece of software, copying it, and selling it.

People may make a conscious choice to buy pirated software, or they may be fooled into buying illegally copied software by savvy pirates who take care to package their products believably.

If software is copied and given away, some people do not consider it piracy, but simple copyright infringement.

This activity is still illegal, but it does not provide monetary benefits for the person doing the copying and distribution.