... of software piracy can occur in many different forms which all violate the copyright law. These forms include anything to sharing a twenty-dollar program with a friend to making and selling counterfeit software. The first and most common way software is pirated is through bootlegging. Bootlegging is like when you make a friend a copy of a software title or let them install it on their computer, which is ... made from the software or statutory damages that can be as much as $150,000.00 for each pirated software copy and all legal fees. They must also, delete all illegal software programs...

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... . Within months Napster servers exploded, at its peak Napster had 300 million users trading on it at once. The recording industry intervened and eventually coerced Napster to change its ways to prevent copyrighted material from being downloaded. Users suddenly frustrated by corporate defense mechanisms flocked to ... bodies of users, and no way to attack one entity, the recording industry is headed towards disaster if it does not attempt to thwart users ultimate wishes. Pay-per download file sharing services have not gained much popularity. Methods of preventing the copy of copyrighted m...

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