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SocialEthical Issues

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Software Piracy   the illegal copying, distribution, or use of software.  
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Intellectual Property   the fruits of mental labour; something that belongs to your mind or intellect. Your own creative resource.  
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Plagiarism   stealing someone else’s ideas and using them as your own, and is illegal.  
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Shareware   software that is available free of charge and often distributed informally for evaluation, after which a fee may be requested for continued use.  
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Freeware   software that is available free of charge.  
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Public Domain Software   software that is not protected by a copyright and so there is no particular owner or the author has given up ownership rights, leaving the software available for everyone for use.  
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Copyright Law   a form of protection to authors of "original works of authorship." This includes literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and certain other creative works.  
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Reverse Engineering   the analysis of a program by examining its source code and structure in order to develop a similar product, or a product that interfaces with the product being analysed.  
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Decompilation   the process of converting machine executable code into assembler code so it can be more easily understood.  
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Network use   the use of networks to communicate with others  
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