October 9, 1998

Colleges Need to Get Serious About Stopping Illegal Copying of Computer Software

By KEN WASCH

As more colleges and universities connect their dormitories, libraries, laboratories, and classrooms to the Internet, we are seeing a growing wave of campus crime -- software piracy. Although some people believe that such piracy has no victims, in fact, both individuals and software companies suffer from this piracy. Students and faculty members often create their own software, which is as vulnerable to piracy as

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