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How would you feel if you knew that you were being cheated out of millions of dollars each year and you had very little that you could do about it? What if you were a world famous singer that was expected to sell the most CD’s worldwide in a year, but had that honour taken away because of an unstoppable problem that the music industry must endure each year. These are just two of the many effects pirating software has on the world. In just this last year alone, Microsoft has lost hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to software pirating. This is when someone takes some computer software or media software, copies it multiple times for a fraction of the cost, and then resells it to people for less than what the company is selling it for. It is kind of like renting a movie and then re-recording and selling it to people. Since the public isn’t buying this soft