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and Professional Practice 6. Soft lifting - is the piracy of software for individual use (as opposed to commercial piracy for gain. It is the process of interrogating computers on a network, to gather intelligence on what software is being run on the machines.
7. Bulletin-board piracy - putting software on a bulletin-board service for anyone to copy or copying software from a bulletin-board service which is not shareware or freeware. Indicators that a program maybe a counterfeit copy
The price is too good to be true
The program
is on a compilation CD-ROM, i.e. a CD-ROM containing a large number of programs
CD-ROM is gold in colour
The product is sold only in a shrink-wrapped
plastic CD-ROM case There is no retail packaging
You don’t receive a license agreement. Disadvantages of counterfeit software
Greater
exposure to software viruses, corrupt disks, or otherwise defective software
Inadequate or no documentation.
No warranties Lack of technical product support available to properly licensed users
Ineligibility for software upgrades offered to properly licensed users.
College of Engineering and Architecture Computer Engineering
CpE Laws and Professional Practice
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