Question

The unauthorized duplication, installation, or distribution of copyrighted computer software, which is a violation of intellectual property, is called __________.

Answer 1

software piracy

Step-by-step explanation:

• Software Piracy refers to the illegal and unauthorized use, distribution or selling, copy or modification of a software.
• For example when you buy a licensed software and copy that software to several other computers or distribute pirated copies of that software to your friends without having multiple licenses, then this act is illegal and called software piracy.
• This is basically a copyright violation to steal credit from the software developer of legally protected software.
• There are many types of software piracy such as Soft lifting, Counterfeiting, Hard disk loading, Online piracy, etc.
• For example in Online piracy illegal software is installed, distributed and shared over the internet.
• Software piracy results in penalties against software pirates and such software often contain viruses and are unreliable.