| What would you say if you were told that you were | | | | protect your digital property somehow or another. |
| losing thousands upon thousands of dollars on a piece | | | | Think of all of the digital media that flows through the |
| of software that you have created and are trying to | | | | internet, such as e-books, copyrighted images, articles, |
| make a profit off of? Well, it is the truth. Software | | | | software, and other things. The internet is not as |
| piracy is a problem that has brought the software | | | | secure as it could and probably should be, and if you |
| industry to a near standstill, costing the industry billions | | | | are one of those people who are using the computer |
| of dollars each and every year in lost revenue, not to | | | | and Internet to your advantage to gain a skill and gain |
| mention thousands upon thousands of software and IT | | | | something monetary from it, you are more at risk than |
| jobs in the United States. Something must be done | | | | ever before. Just why is that, you ask? It is rather |
| about the issue of software piracy but what? | | | | simple. As technology advances and gives you the |
| Copyright infringement is a faceless crime; the victim is | | | | tools and capabilities necessary to create innovative |
| often the hard working programmer but the assailant | | | | products it also gives other people out there license to |
| could be anybody; you could look them in the face and | | | | take it and that can fast defeat the purpose of |
| not know who they are. For this reason, it is important | | | | creating software to sell for profit in the first place. If |
| to protect your digital media as much as you possibly | | | | you were creating something for fair use and share |
| can because of all intellectual property is it at the most | | | | with other people, digital rights management would not |
| risk of infringement by others, and those who can take | | | | be important but in the case that you are creating |
| advantage of a weak security process or a hole in | | | | something to make available to customers for a price, |
| programming certainly will. The world is full of those | | | | digital rights management is an important thing to take |
| who want to profit from something that they had no | | | | into consideration. For every person that takes your |
| part in. It has been going on since the beginning of time | | | | software or product and comes by it illegally or |
| and the only difference now is that technology has | | | | immorally, they are bound to share it with at least one |
| allowed people to take advantage of the work of | | | | person. That not only takes out of your pocket what |
| others like never before, as well as giving them an | | | | you are due by their having possession of your |
| even more efficient means of distributing and even | | | | product but it also doubles that due to their likelihood to |
| profiting from the work of others. It seems you don't | | | | share it with another person. Luckily, there are services |
| have to have a software programming degree or | | | | out there for people who do not have their own |
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| proud owner of a CD or DVD burner and maybe | | | | photographers, e-book creators and software |
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| management techniques are necessary now more | | | | with an automated registration verification system, |
| than ever before. Unfortunately it is another investment | | | | protecting you against repeat 'refunders' (those who |
| in its own but there are services out there that are | | | | order your product just to copy it and request a refund |
| making good digital rights management services more | | | | of their money, thereby having obtained your product |
| and more affordable, just to offset the enormous killing | | | | for free). Copyright infringement and software piracy |
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| have created a software program, take the | | | | image out there so it is important to make sure that |
| necessary steps to prevent it form being copied or | | | | you take the necessary steps to protect your |
| utilized by others to make a profit. A computer | | | | intellectual property from people who care not to pay |
| program or video game, picture or e-book is just as | | | | for the things in life that they want. |
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