Software Piracy: How it affec

Bradford Gibbons Thursday, November 09, 2000 Software Piracy: How it affects you and what is to come. The roots of copyright protection can be found in the Constitution, where Article 1, Section 8 authorizes Congress to “promote the progress of science and the useful arts.” The purpose of a copyright is to allow a person or entity to profit from their work. A person can refer to a copyright as a system of property. Like property an owner can …

…making them pointless because someone out there will do it, and that person will distribute the patch for the anti-piracy feature that will override it on the Internet. Even hardware locks can be bypassed because they have to use proprietary drivers that are used by system software. If there is to be any complete solution to prevent the illegal use of software, I am pretty sure we wont be seeing it for quite some time.