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In the digital age some would argue that piracy has become a serious social and economic problem. If you look hard enough you can get any software title, movie, song or anything digital on the Internet. Illegal software use in the US accounts for 25 -
50% and and average of 57.8% worldwide. Vietnam and China are the worst with 92% software piracy. In China, you can go to a any market and buy CDs or DVDs for a $1. These are full blown Windows XP Pro and unreleased movie titles.

Software companies have improved ways of deterring software from being pirated. Some strategies have helped stop the spread of piracy include: advertisments that promote piracy as stealing, digital management rights software, secured USB dongles, and forced online registration. While software secuirty has improved, these methods do not stop tech savy users from finding ways to getting arounding these softwares security.

The list below identifies popular methods for getting pirated software. These methods are easy and available to anyone with a computer and Internet access.

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