... pirated software. 2. If a company purchases a software package then the licence agreement may give the company permission to install the software onto more than one computer. This is known as a network or multi-user licence. This type of licence is very convenient for companies, which have many computers, connected to a network. The company will have to pay more for this type of licence than for a standard licence to install the software onto just one computer. But the cost will be lower than it would be to purchase individual copies of the program for each computer. The illegal copying of software is known as piracy and a person who does this is a pirate. Most pirates copy software for their own use but some pirate copies software to sell to other people. In some European countries it is estimated that each software package that is sold is ...

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