Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Dangers of software piracy

We all know software piracy is unethical. I do agree high price demanded by software companies is also unethical. But it does not justify any attempts of software piracy. Ok that is the ethical side. Now let's talk about some practical issues in piracy.

Now most of software companies need their products registered or activated. If your copy is not legal you can't activate them. Then you have to go for cracks or keygens. I don't know exactly why but most of the cracks you find in the internet are virus or some sort of malware. And they hardly do their intended work, ie cracking the software.

So my recommendation is never go for software cracks unless you are pretty sure of the source. Even if you are sure, check the crack for viruses before executing it.

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