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Software Piracy or Within Your Rights?

Each card is something done with a piece of software. Is it software piracy, or within your rights?

⚑ Complete this interactive to capture a CTF flag worth 5 points.

About this interactive

The Software Piracy lesson puts it plainly: software piracy is stealing. Using, copying, modifying, distributing or selling software that you do not have the rights to is piracy, whether the owner is a large company or a struggling artist. The question for each card is about rights: does the person have the right, from a license they bought, the program's own terms, or because they wrote it, to do what they are doing? For a company, the lesson adds, regular piracy can land the business, and the people who help it happen, in real trouble. Sort each card. Five right in a row finishes the round.

What you'll learn

Aligned to

CompTIA Tech+
3.3 Explain the purpose and proper use of software.
CompTIA A+ Core 2
4.6 Explain the importance of prohibited content/activity and privacy, licensing, and policy concepts.

Key terms

Software Piracy
The unauthorized use, copying, modification, distribution, or sale of software without the rights or license to do so, constituting a form of theft and a violation of intellectual property law.
License Compliance
The practice of ensuring software is used in accordance with the terms and conditions set by the software vendor or rights holder.

Topics

Software Piracy Software Licensing Ethics Interactive Streak Sort

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