What is the impact of pirated software on the software industry?

In some ways, piracy can increase a product's market share and thus suppress its opponents. But the premise is that its genuine version also has a certain market, which can ensure that the company has money to make, just like Microsoft.

Speaking of piracy. software, I believe many people will be familiar with it. Not only some companies, but also ordinary people in our daily life, will often come into contact with pirated software, reduce it to install it in their own mobile phones, enjoy free services.

Therefore, compared with genuine software, because you can enjoy many services of the software without spending money, there will still be many people who are willing to use pirated software. However, in the case of some companies using pirated software, there are policies in place that require companies to start prohibiting the use of pirated software. Why is that?

Pirated software is not safe. We know that genuine software, although it may cost money to enjoy the service when you use it, but genuine software is safely listed after reasonable settings, and it is safe for many aspects. As for pirated software, although it can be used without spending money because it has been improved, we do not know whether their security is reliable.

For a confidential company like a company, if you use pirated software to work, it is inevitable that the company's information will be stolen. Therefore, even if the company spends money, it should use genuine software to ensure the company's own security and bring benefits to the company.

Pirated software has a lot of problems and flaws. I believe that anyone who has used pirated software may know that in fact, pirated software has many problems. How so?

For example, if you have a pirated software, after installing and logging in, you will find that a lot of content operated in it is generally not possible, and once it is, the software will prompt a system error, which will have a certain impact on the normal work of the company. And the flaws of pirated software are not only these, you may encounter times when it freezes but cannot be handled. So, that's why companies ban the use of pirated software.

There are a lot of viruses in these software, and the risk factor is particularly high, so it may hurt the interests of the company, leak the company's information, and easily make the computer appear in the virus, and there is no way to repair it, affecting the company's image.

First, security issues, because there may be viruses in pirated software, which will leak some of the company's secrets and cause economic losses. Second, stability, because it is piracy, so the software is unstable, which will also affect office efficiency.

Software has become an indispensable equipment for enterprises to carry out business, and is the core of enterprise information systems, which has a very important impact on the development, security and development of the entire enterprise business. In this case, if the enterprise uses pirated software, it will threaten the security of the entire enterprise information system at any time, bringing hidden dangers to the normal operation of the enterprise's business.

This is because this kind of pirated software will harm the copyright and intellectual property rights of the original software, which will also lead to a particularly serious confusion in the market, which is also a serious violation of the law and will also have a serious misleading effect on consumers.

It's very simple, because you will be sued by the software copyright owner and then lose a lot of money.

Legal Analysis: Therefore, copying and using software without permission can only constitute infringement if it meets the requirements for commercial use. Generally speaking, one of the following circumstances can be considered as commercial use:

1.The business scope of the enterprise includes the business that requires the use of such software, such as the use of animation production software by animation design companies; 2.Enterprises or individuals need to use such software in their actual operations, such as law firms using office software to prepare legal documents; 3.

Enterprises or individuals use such software to produce results directly or indirectly for profit or business operations, such as enterprises using design software to produce posters, engineering drawings, etc.

Legal basis: Regulations on the Protection of Computer Software

Article 18 Where others are allowed to exercise software copyright, a license contract shall be concluded. The licensee shall not exercise the rights not expressly permitted by the software copyright owner in the license contract.

Article 24 Except as otherwise provided in the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, these Regulations or other laws and administrative regulations, without the permission of the software copyright owner, whoever commits any of the following infringements shall, according to the circumstances, bear civil liabilities such as stopping the infringement, eliminating the impact, making a formal apology, and compensating for losses; where the public interest is harmed at the same time, the administrative copyright management department is to order that the infringing acts be stopped, confiscate unlawful gains, confiscate or destroy infringing copies, and may impose a concurrent fine; where the circumstances are serious, the administrative copyright management departments may confiscate materials, tools, equipment, and so forth that are primarily used to make infringing copies; If the criminal law is violated, criminal liability shall be investigated in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law on the crime of copyright infringement and the crime of selling infringing copies: copying or partially copying the software of the copyright owner.

Legal analysis: From the perspective of legal provisions, if you use the other party's software without the permission of the right holder, it is piracy and infringement. If you pirate software to a certain amount, then you are legally responsible.

However, in practice, because the personal use of pirated software causes little loss to the right holder, because the right holder also has to consider the cost of litigation, so if you lose so little, you will generally not be required to bear legal responsibility. So in practice, it is rare for individuals to be liable for the use of pirated software, but you should note that this does not mean that you are not liable, as long as the infringement may be liable for damages. According to the regulations, including any unit or individual without the permission of the software copyright owner, the use of pirated software is illegal, and may be fined 100 yuan per piece or less than 5 times the value of the goods, or even bear criminal liability.

Therefore, you should not feel that you are an individual, unlike ordinary companies that pirate other people's software, and once they are caught, they are very likely to be held legally responsible. Moreover, in fact, some software companies require you to infringe not only on the number of pirated copies, but also on how much damage you actually bring to him after piracy. That is to say, the software he produced is of great value in itself, so even if you personally pirate, you will be held responsible for this greater value.

Legal basis: "Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights" Article 13: In any of the following circumstances, where the dissemination of other people's written works, films, television, fine arts, photography, video works, audio and video recordings, computer software, and other works through information networks is disseminated to the public for the purpose of making profits, without the permission of the copyright owner, it is as provided for in article 217 of the Criminal Law" Other aggravating circumstances":

1) The amount of illegal business operations is 50,000 yuan or more;

2) The total number of other people's works disseminated is 500 or more;

3) The actual number of clicks on the work of others is 50,000 or more;

4) Disseminating the works of others through a membership system, with 1,000 or more registered members;

5) Although the amount or quantity does not meet the standards provided for in items (1) through (4), it reaches more than half of the two or more standards;

6) Other situations of serious circumstances. Where the conduct provided for in the preceding paragraph is carried out, and the amount or quantity reaches five times or more of the standards provided for in items (1) through (5) of the preceding paragraph, it is "other especially serious circumstances" as provided for in Criminal Law article 217.

Today's pirated CDs do little harm to computers (one point is that the quality of pirated CDs may not be good, damaging computer ROM drives). For us personally, it's just a little guilty in our hearts, and nothing more. Then it depends on what kind of pirated software it is, for example, Windows now, I think it's the same to use, and piracy is cheaper

Antivirus software can't be used, piracy can't be upgraded, it's no different from not installing.

It is very harmful to genuine merchants, and Microsoft spent more than $5 billion to develop WindowsXP,). Genuine win

More than 2,000 on the pro market (Microsoft's one that has been cut a thousand times). And pirated copies are only sold for 5 yuan, and they don't even need money on the Internet (these are good for us poor), so we can only use pirated copies against our conscience.

This is an illegal act, this is the most important and the most serious point, if you are held accountable by the genuine software company, you must be responsible, and don't think that you are an ordinary user to think that you can stay out of it, the purpose of the pirated software company must be impure, perhaps use every user to carry out their illegal acts, the user's move not only helps the piracy atmosphere, but also cracks down on the genuine atmosphere.

There may be a risk of computer system damage or viruses, and pirated software is very vulnerable to virus attacks, so that even if your computer has high-strength antivirus software, it will not help, and the virus has been planted the moment you choose pirated software; And the damage caused to the computer system is immeasurable, the system can easily crash, and in severe cases, the computer hardware can also be damaged.

If it is a business user, the harm is even greater, the information files on your computer, passwords and other company business documents are at risk of being leaked, and once leaked, you have to bear not only the consequences of losing your job, but also will be sued by the company, which is a serious violation of the company and the law, and it is too late to regret it.

The use of pirated software must not be as functional as the genuine version, and the after-sales service is considerate, as well as the upgrade and update function, which are all missing from pirated software, and we can also distinguish the difference between genuine and pirated by this.

Finally, choose genuine software carefully and protect your computer, this is my advice to everyone.

The first point of the use of pirated software will endanger the legitimate rights and interests of the user, and the legitimate rights and interests are not guaranteed, and the second point is that it will cause some harm to the user's privacy, and may be stolen by others.

There are serious harms, there are some pirated software that will leak the user's relevant information, such as ID number, home address, etc., this information is obtained by criminals may carry out fraud and other activities, such as calling ** to family, friends say that you have encountered something, need money, let them send money, to achieve the purpose of fraud.

The biggest harm of using this pirated software is that the layout is not very clear, and the effect of piracy is not very good, and there are some hidden dangers.

There are many hidden dangers for users to use pirated software, first of all, there is no guarantee and may cause users to lose some data, and the computer is very likely to be invaded by viruses, which may cause irreparable losses.

It will leak users' personal information, privacy will not be guaranteed, and various harassments will be received**. And the pirated software is not as functional as the genuine software, and the user experience is not good enough.

There is no after-sales, the virus spreads, and it cannot be upgraded. There is no after-sales for piracy. The software may also contain viruses that leak user information. Some bugs cannot be upgraded to solve the problem.