Software News - Fighting Against Counterfeits
4 March 2007Has ever happened to you to be duped by some swindlers who just wanted to sell you counterfeit software? If this has never happened to you, then pay attention to this article. I will give you some tips on how to recognize fake software.
Counterfeit software is the result of the copying, the reproduction or the unauthorized fabrication of the software products. Counterfeit software is normally realized so that it appears authentic and it is distributed in wraps that imitate the wrap of the initial producer. The wraps of the counterfeit software have different levels of quality and resemblance with the original wraps, but the latter ones have some distinctive features. First of all, Microsoft will never print a key product directly on the software wrap. Secondly, the Microsoft software products will be delivered only accompanied by an authenticity certificate put on the wrap.
The counterfeit mediums of installation differ in quality, from rewritable CDs to high-quality replicas of the original CD. Sometimes the forgers will apply on the CD holographic etiquettes, thus trying to reproduce the aspect of the original Microsoft installing CDs. The holograms from the Microsoft CDs are not etiquettes, because they are even part of the CD.
While some forgers use sophisticated methods of high technical level to reproduce the authenticity certificates and the software documentation, most counterfeit materials are produces just like that by using photocopying machineries and scanners.
Microsoft has declared war to all those online sellers of counterfeit software, and they sued them in justice. There have been initiated more than fifty actions of this type after they tested several unauthorized Windows XP programs, out of which more than 30 percent were impossible to be installed on the computer.
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