With technology now being used to share media online there are many risk of the creators or the original owner products, designs etc. being taken and passed off as their own or for personal use without the owner’s permission, to protect us from that happening there is a law known as Copyright. When these laws have been breached you are then committing piracy, examples of piracy can be when you download songs from YouTube illegally, get products such as Microsoft office from torrent sites or download films that you have not paid for, there is a lot of piracy cases in the movie industry as people often bring a video camera to the cinema then illegally record the film and then sell copies, to prevent Copyright laws being breached and piracy being committed websites now are developing new ways to secure their products such as serial keys as now when you purchase products online such as adobe Photoshop CS4 you are required to enter a unique license code or when buying the cd version the license code is inside the CD case and can’t be used for any other version of the products other than that CD, there was also to other laws similar to Copyright but would tackle piracy more effectively known as SOPA & PIPA, however many websites fought back and the two laws caused to much controversy resulting in the laws being dismissed.
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