What is Pirated Software?

Pirated software is software that is illegally manufactured or copied. It is very difficult to identify, but the lack of key codes or components is a sign of lack of authenticity. Pirated software is not guaranteed and cannot be upgraded. Additionally, updates from software vendors may not be available for download over the Internet.

Pirated software

Pirated software is software that is illegally manufactured or copied. It is very difficult to identify, but it is missing

How to identify which software is "pirated software"

Software sales company cannot provide legal copyright certificate

The copyright of the software is equivalent to a person's household registration and identity card. After the software owner completes the software design, it is a copyright certificate issued by the computer software registration department of the National Copyright Administration. There are two forms of copyright for genuine software sold by a company: one is a company's own product, the copyright owner owns the company; the other is a product sold by others, and the copyright owner is the company or individual who provides the software for the company. If the company that sells your software cannot provide the above legal copyright proof, then the product is suspected of being pirated software.

Software sales company cannot provide users with after-sales service

A software seller who obfuscates a user's service request for various reasons and tries to escape the after-sale responsibility can also fully demonstrate that he has stolen someone else's software. Because such companies do not have software source code, it is impossible to modify any point of the software according to the needs of the user.

Users have not been upgraded for a long time after purchasing software

If a user buys pirated software, since the seller of the pirated software does not have the source code of the software, it is impossible for them to upgrade the software.

Extremely low software sales prices

Since sellers of pirated software have no development costs, maintenance costs, and upgrade costs, only software sales costs, so they can sell such software at a very low price. However, sometimes the price of the software they sell to users is not low, because they are sure that the user does not understand the market and the price, and they can kill it severely.

Earlier version of software sold

Under normal circumstances, genuine software developers will launch their latest version at the end of the year or at the appropriate time, which has become the practice of the software industry. If the software seller sells an outdated software product to the user (for example: they will sell the 2007 version of the software in 2009), no matter how they explain, how to justify, how to seduce you at a lower price, Keep your eyes wide open to avoid being deceived.

Causes of pirated software

Year 2008

On October 15, Microsoft China announced that two important updates will be launched simultaneously on October 20, 2008-Windows Genuine Advantage Program Notice ("WGA Notice") and Office Genuine Advantage Program Notice ("OGA Notice"). It is designed to help users identify whether the Microsoft Windows operating system and Office applications installed on their computers are authorized genuine software, thereby helping those who have unknowingly installed and used pirated software to avoid infringement.

The new WGA announcement is a new round of continuous roll-out of the Microsoft WGA project. It is only aimed at Windows XP Professional users, helping users verify whether the Windows XP installed on their PC is genuine and properly licensed. The OGA notification is Microsoft's first release for Chinese Office users, covering all users of Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007 suites.

WGA notification and OGA notification are optional services. Users can choose to download and install through the Microsoft Update site or Auto Update. After the verification process, they can find out whether their Windows XP or Office products are genuine and authorized accordingly.

Users who pass the authentication can use Windows XP or Office programs directly. Users who fail verification for different reasons will receive corresponding system notifications. Such as: the product is not activated or the "Unactivated verification failed" under the trial version; "Verification cannot be completed" due to synchronization timeout, etc .; or "Non-genuine verification failed".

Black screen of pirated software

If Windows XP users have not passed the genuine verification, a black screen appears

· After the user boots, the desktop background becomes pure black, and the user can reset the desktop background, but every 60 minutes, the desktop background will change back to black.

When the user logs in, they will see a dialog box with a logout interruption, and a permanent notification and continuous reminder dialog box will appear in the lower right corner of the screen, displaying "You may be the victim of software piracy" and other prompt messages.

If Office users do not pass the genuine verification, a black screen appears

· Within 1-14 days, there will be a pop-up dialog to remind that the running Office software is not genuine. Customers will receive a dialog reminder once every day after opening the Office software for the first time and 2 hours thereafter.

· Beginning on the 15th day, the dialog box will continue to appear, telling the user that if no action is taken, the office software will be visually marked after 14 days (that is, 30 days after the verification fails).

· After 30 days, a visual mark will be added to the menu bar of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook programs of Office software to remind users that the copy of Office software is not genuine.