clsteve opened this issue on Nov 15, 2007 · 354 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sat, 17 November 2007 at 6:37 PM
Seeing as how there are a fair number of nations on the earth wherein copyright law is essentially meaningless (Russia, China, various Southeast Asian, African, and Southsea Islands locations) -- and that all of those countries have entrepreneurial types with servers and with no qualms whatsoever about using those servers to distribute whatever their various governments are willing to ignore online: it's impossible to police them, or to stop piracy.
So -- software can and will be pirated. The only areas of the world where copyright law has so much as a slim chance of being enforced are all in Western nations. Otherwise, 'citizens of the world' are pretty much free to do as they like.
The only real threat to them might come from hackers. Other than that: they can laugh at the rest.