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Internet Software Piracy: A Growing Problem While the Internet vastly increases opportunities to sell products and services, it also creates new opportunities to steal software. Indeed, software theft and distribution threaten to undermine the tremendous innovation, jobs and revenue that the Internet promises. Until recently, unauthorized copying of software required physical exchange of floppy disks, CDs or other hard media. But, as the Internet continually gets easier, faster and less expensive, software piracy does the …

…to strengthen copyright protection and combat software piracy, including the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Department of Justice in 1999 announced the Intellectual Property Rights Initiative, which includes several domestic and international efforts to increase the prosecution of intellectual property crime and promote respect for intellectual property rights. BSA is using its full authority under these laws to move against known pirates. http://new.bsa.org/usa/antipiracy/consumers/