A major commercial program can take a team of one hundred or more highly skilled and highly paid programmers years to create and sell for hundreds of dollars per copy. ... The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly. ... For example, a description of a machine could be copyrighted, but this would only prevent others from copying the description;...

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The illegal act of software piracy can occur in many different forms which all violate the copyright law. ... Downloading copyrighted software from the Internet illegally one of the ways to commit software piracy. ... They must also, delete all illegal software programs, purchase legal software and sign an agreement to obey the copyright law in the future. ... Finally do not copy or install multiple copies of a singled license program on multiple computers and beware of software prices that seem to good to be true. ... Business Software Alliance also educates computer users and business on so...

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Another argument against piracy is the prevalence of virus threats amongst copyright infringing materials and sources. ... Contrary to the expectation that copyright infringement decreases content creation, real world statistics show that artist output increases. ... Thus, the motivation for copyright companies to lobby for anti-piracy legislation seems even more suspect. Not only is the premise for enacting regulative laws problematic, the actual process of doing it shows many potential flaws as well. ... As flawed as the current crop of legislation regarding internet piracy is, there exists ...

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However, many of the people "breaking the law" appear to be uninterested and ignore the requests of the RIAA. ... Perhaps many of millions of people who are currently "breaking the law" feel that the accusers will not target them. ... Changing copyright law is not a solution for poor management. Copy protected CDs lock up the music forever, even when the work in question returns to public domain. This was not part of the copyright bargain our forefathers struck, nor was it ever intended to provide income for the heirs of the copyright holder. ...

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