Digital Piracy

The illegal trade of Software, Videos, Digital Video Devices (DVDs) and music. Piracy occurs when someone other than the copyright holder copies the product and resells it for a fraction of the cost that the legitimate producer charges. It is a serious problem in many of the countries outside the United States, particularly China and India.

History of Digital Piracy

The personal computer debuted on the cover of popular Electronics in January, 1975 and a year later Bill Gates of Microsoft was battling piracy as he was trying to get his fledgling company Microsoft off the ground.
In his letter to Software Pirates of that era, he wrote “Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?“ 

 

Statistics of Digital Piracy

Online or digital internet piracy is a very serious problem which online community is facing.
One of the most famous website popular for the use of digital piracy is BitTorrent. It was developed by Bram Cohen in 2001.By splitting large files into sizable pieces, data can be widely distributed and shared without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth resources. For a client to download the additional data, one must supply requested chunks of the larger file to newer recipients. Cohen’s implementation not only proved to be incredibly sufficient but also manged to exploit a legal loophole. While the initial releases of BitTorrent system depends on the trackers to operate, these servers answered the requests clients only by giving them the location of other computers who are concurrently sharing the same sought after file.
The fact is 70 % of online users find nothing wrong in online piracy and 67 % of digital piracy related websites are hosted in North America and Western Europe. There are some shocking features about Digital Piracy. There are mainly three big industries which get effected a lot by Digital Piracy. Those are-

1. The Film Industry
2. The Music Industry
3. The Software Hub

The Motion Picture industry got highly effected in the year of 2005 by Digital Piracy. And the world wide motion pictures faced a loss of $20.5 billion annually.
The Software Hub missed out on more than $51 billion in profits last year as a result of software piracy.
Music sales in the U.S. have dropped 53 percent, from $14.6 billion to $7.0 billion in 2011 for Digital Piracy.

The most dark side of Digital Piracy is—

There is a relation between Pirated Software and Malware Infection. A 2006 International Data Corporation Research Firm revealed that 25 percent of websites offering access to pirated software and piracy-related tools were distributing malicious code that could undermine IT security and performance. In some cases, the websites exploited vulnerabilities in the users' computers to install the unwanted software automatically. In a study of 98 unique software piracy websites by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), it is found that 8% of the websites offer malicious or potentially unwanted software and 17% of the websites have multiple instances of malicious or potentially unwanted software. Also, in a BSA study of the rate of software piracy vs. malware infection in 10 unique countries, it is shown that the average ratio of software piracy to malware infection is 2:6.

Concluding Note

With such a high rate of getting affected through some Malware Infection or Virus Attack or some unwanted Software into your computer which may result your System Crash or your System working in an inconvenient way, Then why in search of Pirated Software ,Why to download them !!!!!! To put your computer at risk!!!!
Do not download the Pirated Software instead of that get the real Software by paying for them.