Let’s say you need to buy a new version of Windows your computer. You see on the auction site a real opportunity: a sudden 20 per cent of the market price! You buy, you get all the documents and … you become a pirate computer. Although as the most honest intentions.
Software, if it is powerful and functional, it can cost much more than we would wish. Sometimes, however, there is no exit. For example, if you plan to start półprofesjonalnie dabble in photography, you may find that awaits you expense than two thousand … on the same system and software.
It is logical, therefore, that we are looking for markdowns and occasion. And the easiest to find on the popular online auction sites. Software “second-hand” versions of depleted of us unnecessary elements, and so on. Sometimes, however, you can not hit on any occasion: a professional application such as CAD / CAM for 10 percent of its market price? In the picture the original media, everything as it should be … nothing but buy!
To it was so beautiful …
Unfortunately, the software is particularly prone to the problem of “fakes”. For what is a computer program? The information stored in the memory of the data carrier, which is very easy to copy. Hence, from a legal point of view, the most valuable element to our existing program is not a carrier, but the license. By copying the installation media easily we get two of the same programs. This does not mean that we can use both.
It often happens that the auctions with “unique opportunities” is a violation of the license in two ways. The first is the sale of the ordinary, vulgar “pirate” and so the copied program without a license with a very good counterfeit carrier, often indistinguishable to the layman from the original.
The second is to sell programs whose license does not allow it. For example, when the university bought for their needs office suite for educational purposes, sometimes at each position pays a much lower price than individual user who buys a program to work. This does not mean that the university can “sell” the program to the individual user, since license does not allow it. It may therefore be that we buy at a bargain price of genuine software, you will not be able to use.
How to guard against problems?
There is nothing wrong in the hunt for bargains, and these Yet often to appear. But let’s be vigilant. There is nothing surprising in the price for the license reduced by, for example, 15 percent. However, if the software costs a fraction of its market price, it is extremely unlikely that it came from legitimate sources.
It should also benefit from official distribution software and avoid auctions that look suspicious. Virtually every publisher programs have on their website or can directly purchase a license, or lists official distributors from whom we purchase software or license itself. Why should avoid the “special occasion”, apart from the obvious serenity of conscience?
There are two reasons. Obtaining unlicensed software could result in severe penalties of imprisonment up to five years inclusive (which of course is an extreme case, but it is worth remembering). And what is the other one? If the “pirate” is able to copy the software, it can also be modified. For example, by adding to it a malicious code that steals our data (including financial!) Or uses the processing power of your computer for criminal purposes.
Therefore, if you do not appeal to you, the moral arguments, go to this pragmatically . That Internet “opportunity” can cost you much, much more than saving to buy a license for the software.
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