are sites. Mail Order. An equivalent to traditional mail order, the Internet adds a new way of locating customers and products. Buyers can browse, select, and order pirated software on-line. FTP. File Transfer Protocol sites allow the transfer of pirated software through uploading and downloading. Legitimate companies, government, and educational agencies are often the victims of pirates, who use others' computers as temporary distribution sites. Serial Numbers. Many web sites list thousands of serial numbers, which are needed by users of pirated software in order to install or operate the program. World Wide Web. Changing of the web has let pirates create home pages providing links to download sites. Some sites include a web page and ftp site; both offering and providing pirated software, others link directly to remote hosts.“Warez” is a slang term for pirated software. There are over 2 million web-sites offering, linking or referencing "warez,” from roughly 100,000 warez sites two years ago, to 900,000 last year. There has been a great effort in the industry to fight software piracy, unfortunately pirates seem to have the ability to adjust to these changes in technology. The industry has started massive investigations in efforts to fight Internet piracy, including working with law enforcement agencies and online service providers to shut down illegal sites. According to Robert Holleyman, BSA (Business Software Alliance) takes down hundreds of illegal sites each month. For its part, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has stepped up its anti-piracy enforcement efforts on the Internet. The BSA is pursuing educational outreach and working to ensure that the laws protecting intellectual property are adequate to the task. The United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8 covers copyright infringement. U.S. law, based on this provision, protects a person's right to control the reproduction and distri...
