This strategy failed, however, because it was inconvenient for users and was not 100 percent foolproof. How is it possible for millions to use pirated software at. An artificial accelerogram generator code written in. Interestingly, not only the concept, but also the term itself, is highly controversial. Software piracy is considered direct infringement when it denies holders due compensation for use of their creative works. If you sneak into the movie theater to watch a movie for free, even though the reel is still in the projector room and unaffected by your presence, you are still stealing. What is the difference between synthetic and artificial. Nike is accused of making illegal copies of that software, and of downloading and using illegally cracked keys.
Generation of synthetic earthquake accelerograms based on upto. Earthquake software for artificial accelerograms generation. What will happen if adobe found that i have used piracy. The bsa website defines software piracy as the unauthorized copying or distribution of ed software. Spectrum and energy compatible artificial accelerograms. This code calculates artificial acceleration time histories as samples of a stationary process, characterized by a onesided power spectral. May 19, 20 even if it doesnt actually physically affect the original copy, piracy takes the sale away from the creator. The effects of software piracy on consumers and software. Seismoartif is an application capable of generating artificial earthquake accelerograms matched to a specific target response spectrum using different calculation methods and varied assumptions. Software piracy is a crime, but that crime brought with it some spectacular innovations. Global software piracy study latest breaking news, pictures, videos, and special reports from the economic times. For instance, the fragmented noncentralized distribution method known as bit torrent is a great idea, and it significantly lowered the barrier to entry for. A using a list of email addresses or domain names from which an email blocking program will allow messages to be received.
Aug 08, 2012 apples fumble with the uptodate program is a perfect example of how protection and licensing can annoy customers while doing little to reduce software piracy. Digital piracy may also occur on a wider scale when criminal groups reproduce software, movie soundtracks, audiovisual work without authors or publishers consent. Software piracy is the mislicensing, unauthorized reproduction and illegal distribution of software, whether for business or personal use. Nov 15, 2016 sometimes software can be expensive, but thats never an excuse to pirate it. Gao concludes piracy stats are usually junk, file sharing can. Although it seems that now you are using legit one. The computational algorithm for stochastic simulations of the seismological model for generation of accelerograms is presented to enable readers to generate accelerograms by matlab, or excel, instead of proprietary software avoiding the black box syndrome. Software piracy is all but impossible to stop, although software companies are launching more and more lawsuits against major infractors. Guest writes both the concept of software piracy and the term itself remain highly controversial. Part of the problem, according to chris tortorice, corporate counsel for antipiracy with microsoft canada inc. Usgs uses github for all new software development, as well as open sourcing older software. Software piracy is the stealing of legally protected software. Revisiting software piracy using globe cultural practices. Both terms represent usage of software without paying for it, but thats all the two have in common.
Artificial accelerograms generated to match a target response spectrum earthquake motion as the output from filters and use of system response for a white noise input disadvantages records generally have an excessive number of cycles of strong motion, and consequently have unrealistically high energy content. North america was the most lawabiding region and had a piracy rate of 23%. If theres one thing that burns me with bsas approach, its their willful ignorance of the difference between software piracy and unlicensed software. Software piracy, which is the unauthorized use or copying of software illegally, has become a major problem for businesses and it is widespread in many parts of the world which led to drain of economy. Selection, scaling and simulation of input ground motion. The generation of an artificial accelerogram to match code.
Software piracy therefore can undermine the well being of companies, communities, and countries. Hhtbased artificial seismic accelerograms generation halinria. Global software piracy study blogs, comments and archive news on. In the context of software piracy, what is blacklisting. Piracy is theft, no matter what people say holly the librarian. Originally, software companies tried to stop software piracy by copyprotectingtheir software. Seismomatch adjusting earthquake accelerograms software. A stochastically based seismological model is described in this paper and used to generate synthetic accelerograms that are considered representative of. More specifically, two nns compress the fourier spectra of a set of recorded accelerograms and produce a similar frequency spectrum.
The software implements an elastoplastic bilinear kinematic hardening constitutive model and uses a stateoftheart single step single solve time integration algorithm featuring exceptional speed, robustness and accuracy. The trailers of films that say piracy is theft do not help understanding here, as a piracy is often a civil matter, b in no jurisdiction that i know of is piracy when criminal prosecuted as theft rather under a separate statute, c it bears very little relation to theft in terms of. Furthermore, accelerograms allow you to generate response spectra or use them directly in the response spectrum analysis. Piracy involves numerous factors that affect the pricing and financial health of legitimate corporations. Software piracy is indeed a very grave problem in the electronically connected world today. With the ever increasing innovations in technology and software today, newer and newer software are coming out in the market daily.
Jul 07, 2004 the annual survey of global software piracy shows that 36% of software was being used illegally in 2003 according to figures prepared for the bsa. These subroutines are for the generation of synthetic accelerograms which are. In particular, a frequency dependent peak factor derived by means of appropriate monte carlo analyses is introduced to relate the gb 500112001 design spectrum to a parametrically defined evolutionary power spectrum. Dec 20, 2016 software piracy is a crime, but that crime brought with it some spectacular innovations. Accelerograms can be entered in rfem or rstab by using the rfdynam pro addon module. It is noted that the use of real accelerograms and spectrum matching techniques. German programmer sebastian porst has posted details of the alleged.
The rate of global software piracy climbed to 43 percent in 2009. Software piracy began when ed roberts created a company called the micro instrumentation telemetry system mits. Bbc news technology software piracy continues to grow. Artificial accelerograms representing bedrock conditions may be derived from ground motion prediction expressions gmpe using software such as. Choose a web site to get translated content where available and see local events and offers.
These subroutines are for the generation of synthetic accelerograms which are used in the paper. Artifseismomatlab file exchange matlab central mathworks. B the process of encoding dynamic information within the application. According to the business software alliance bsa, an international association representing. Some computer industry executives claim that socalled piracy is by far the largest problem facing the software industry. Generation of responsespectrumcompatible artificial. For many years weve explored how entertainment and software industry piracy statistics are very reliable at least. Technically you did violate laws and tos while using pirated software. Accelerograms are accelerationtime diagrams also acceleration time course or seismogram, which are usually based on real earthquake records. Software piracy has many negative economic consequences.
The annual survey of global software piracy shows that 36% of software was being used illegally in 2003 according to figures prepared for the bsa. The history of software piracy the history of software piracy dates back almost to the invention of the consumer computer itself. German programmer sebastian porst has posted details of. Synthesis of accelerograms compatible with the chinese gb. Microsoft extends antipiracy features in office 2000 stories. The most piracyridden region was eastern europe where currently 71% of the software in use is stolen. Software piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. Openseismomatlab is an innovative opensource software for strong ground motion data processing, written in matlab. Spectrum and energy compatible artificial accelerograms file. Founded in 1975, microsoft nasdaq msft is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers.
Jul 29, 2001 software piracy on the rise britains computer games industry generates. Under law, software piracy occurs when protected software is copied, distributed, modified or sold. I want to research about artificial accelerogram of earthquakes and. So when i heard that fellow microisv owner nikos bozinis had created a tool to help software vendors fight piracy, i asked him to write a guest post. Apr 12, 2010 gao concludes piracy stats are usually junk, file sharing can help sales. Software piracy is a real issue for every software company, large and small, and it isnt going away any time soon. The antipiracy program, called xcp, was created for sony bmg by the ukbased company first 4 internet. Gao concludes piracy stats are usually junk, file sharing can help sales. Piracy rates are the highest in developing countries, and this discourages new software developers to enter the market. Others assert that it is a relatively minor problem and that the real problems are poor quality and excessive prices as a. The data can be imported from a library that contains a large number of earthquake records see figure 01. What are some unexpected benefits of internet digital piracy. According to the business software alliance, 57% of the worlds computer users admit to using pirate software.
To my knowledge, synthetic accelerograms are those which can be derived from seismological parameters and artificial accelerograms those which can be derived from spectrum compatible. For many years weve explored how entertainment and software industry piracy statistics are very reliable. The bottom line is when software is pirated, the developer does not receive compensation for their work. Generation of synthetic earthquake accelerograms based on. Thats especially true if the software in question is 558,000 copies of a. The trailers of films that say piracy is theft do not help understanding here, as a piracy is often a civil matter, b in no jurisdiction that i know of is piracy when criminal prosecuted as theft rather under a separate statute, c it bears very little relation to theft in terms of what has to be proved under uk law anyway. The bsa survey was based on questions to 15,000 people in thirtythree countries in 2012. Anti piracy software protection with pc guard software. On the other hand the generation of the accelerograms from the knowledge of a target response spectrum is an inverse problem whose solution is not unique. Software piracy hurts the economic growth rates of developing countries the most. I generated and used synthetic earthquake acceleration records in my following. Oct 30, 2012 software piracy is the stealing of legally protected software. Zheng li, panagiotis kotronis and hanliang wu 2017, simplified approaches for arias intensity correction of synthetic accelerograms, bulletin of earthquake engineering. By shaun nichols in san francisco 20 jul 2016 at 00.
Synthesis of artificial spectrumcompatible seismic. Antipiracy software accused of license violation new scientist. Soon after the creation of the company the altair 8800 was created. Sometimes software can be expensive, but thats never an excuse to pirate it. May 10, 2020 software piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. Thats especially true if the software in question is 558,000 copies of a virtual reality program and you are the u.
Software piracy is a term that is frequently used to describe the copying or use of computer software in violation of its license commonly referred to as an end user licensing agreement or eula. Apples fumble with the uptodate program is a perfect example of how protection and licensing can annoy customers while doing little to reduce software piracy. Legal protection against software piracy in global markets. Copying music for a friend, downloading a commercially licensed program from the internet without purchasing it and even using software in a way that violates the end user license agreement are all forms of computer piracy. The second is hallodorson and papageorgiou algorithm 8 implemented by seismoartif artificial earthquake accelerograms. Jun 28, 2009 a versatile approach is employed to generate artificial accelerograms which satisfy the compatibility criteria prescribed by the chinese aseismic code provisions gb 500112001. Computer piracy is the unauthorized use of ed software. Spectrumcompatible and energy compatible artificial accelerograms generation. The most piracy ridden region was eastern europe where currently 71% of the software in use is stolen. Customers shouldnt have to sacrifice convenience and user experience to awkward licensing or protection schemes because software vendors are paranoid. According to the business software alliance bsa, an. Even if it doesnt actually physically affect the original copy, piracy takes the sale away from the creator.
For every two dollars worth of software purchased legitimately, one dollars worth was obtained illegally. It should be noted that with the use of realistic accelerometers and spectrum matching techniques along with record selection tools, you can obtain a set of records for dynamic nonlinear analysis of new or existing structures. It sold software to nike, which it alleges agreed to a sla. Nike accused of pirating software after being caught with. Software producers would not be able to compete with the inexpensive pirated versions, and drive them away from entering the market. For the 9th year in a row, the business software alliance bsa, an organization that mainly represents microsofts interest, has put out its ridiculous global software piracy study, which. Determining the response spectrum from a given set of accelerograms is quite a wellcodified procedure. Seismoartif v2018 is a software for generating synthetic earthquake motions according to a specific response spectrum using different calculation methods and hypotheses. The magnitude of the problem indicates that a strategic, organizationwide, cooperative, global approach is required if management hopes to curtail the global software piracy pandemic.
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