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There is a persistent rumor floating around that the National Bureau of Investigation and Microsoft are going around town conducting raids against pirated or fake software. Our culture of tolerating, to the point of promoting pirated products, whether they are music, video, or software products has made this rumor very relevant.

Piracy has become so prevalent in this country that most of us have forgotten that it is illegal. I figure that most of the homes that have a DVD player will have at least one pirated DVD movie. The same would probably go for homes with PCs … finding pirated or unlicensed software installed as certain as the sun rising in the