Is It Stealing? By Amber Porter

Key Terms  Software licensing- Allowing an individual or group to use a piece of software  Piracy- The unauthorized copying of software  Copyright- The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.  Pilferage-The act of stealing small amounts or small articles

Key terms (continued)  Site license- a way to gain a bulk discount when purchasing many copies of a given piece of software. Unlimited licenses-the organization which purchases an Unlimited License of a piece of software can use as many copies of that software as it wantsUnlimited licenses-the organization which purchases an Unlimited License of a piece of software can use as many copies of that software as it wants Bulk Licenses- an organization can use a set number of copies of the software in question.Bulk Licenses- an organization can use a set number of copies of the software in question. Discount Programs-the organization gains a substantial discount when making further purchases from the company in question for the period of the license (usually one year).Discount Programs-the organization gains a substantial discount when making further purchases from the company in question for the period of the license (usually one year).

Who is Jon Johansen?  member of the Masters of Reverse Engineering The MoRE created DeCSS DVD playback for LinuxThe MoRE created DeCSS DVD playback for Linux DeCSS- Decrypt Content Scrambling SystemDeCSS- Decrypt Content Scrambling System  The American movie industry pressured the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit to press charges against Jon Johansen in 2000 for allegedly bypassing the CSS copy protection on DVDs.  He was proven innocent in two trials.

Johansen strikes again  He produced a new code called QTFair  The new program circumvents iTunes' anti-copying program, MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding, by legally opening and playing a protected music file in QuickTime, but then, essentially, draining the unprotected music data into a new and parallel file.

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