RADIUM MP3 ENCODER SOFTWARE
Keeping up with the times, warez pirates soon began running "fsp" servers on university machines, closely followed by warez web sites where software could be downloaded directly from the Internet. As the Internet spread, so the warez pirates followed, exploiting world readable anonymous ftp directories to create "hidden" directories containing many hundreds of megabytes of pirated software. Once modems began to be common across America, small Bulletin Boards (BBSs) sprang up offering a warez section where users could upload and download software. As fast as the companies developed methods of protection, the warez pirates developed techniques to "crack" the software protection and distribute the software. As companies realized that they were losing revenue, they began to develop increasingly sophisticated software protection methods to prevent copying.
Just as soon as companies started to produce software for sale, so a small group of users immediately started to copy it onto blank disks, or even cassette tapes, and pass the software around. Pirate software, or "warez", has been around as long as there have been computers. Although the MP3 scene gained early notoriety through the mass copying and distribution of tracks "ripped" from CDs, nowadays many sites offer legal MP3s. There is a major difference between the distribution of MP3 files and of pirated software and that is that the MP3 files are not necessarily breaching copyright. The most well known of these is Internet porn, a subject which is beyond the scope of this book, while the other two are the trading of MP3 files and the distribution of pirated software. There are three uses of the Internet in the 21st century which generate the most discussion/flamage/negative publicity/lost bandwidth.
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