4.+Copyright+and+the+Law

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The most obvious way to commit a crime is to copy material without permission or to make it available for others to download it for free. Purchasing DVDs or CDs, or even recording your favourite shows on television is completely legal as long as you only intend to use them for personal use. It is illegal to sell or make copies of these as the content on them does not belong to you. Nowadays, certain things can be converted into different formats, eg converting a video tape into a DVD or scanning a book and converting it to digital form. It is legal to do so but you must retain the original copy. It is illegal to give the original or the copied version to another person, and if you do so you are breaking the law. ======  Commercial software is software that you purchase up front without any trials. The money from this generally goes to product advertising or other overhead costs. Shareware is completely free to download and you get to try it out for free for a trial period such of normally 30 days. If you are statisfied with the product want to continue using it, you are bound by an honor system to "register" the product. The price of registering is generally a lot cheaper than it is to buy the product in a shop.
 * Shareware vs Commercial Software packages**

Many software publishers have tried to develop ways to reduce software piracy because they are losing money from piracy.
 * Software piracy**

Copyright is a major problem to multimedia publishers because ideas are being stolen and sold to other companies. They often get told that they've stolen other people's work.
 * Why is copyright a major problem to multimedia publishers?**

No it is not right to copy software without the permission of the author. Copyright was introduced so creators could control how their work is used and distributed and if we copy their software without their permission we are taking this right away from them. They also wont be receiving any pay off their software if we are using it without their permission
 * Is it right to copy software without the permission of the author?**

Tucows- shareware, freeware, pay Limewire- torrents, warez Download.com- freeware, shareware, reputible software File Hippo- shareware, reputible free downloads, anti viruses
 * Sites where software may be dowloaded**