What are the benefits to customers of reporting and preventing software piracy?
Software piracy negatively impacts customers, resellers and software vendors. Lower vendor revenues, as a result of software piracy, limit the industry’s ability to re-invest funds in research and development (R&D) and continuously maintain and improve service and support infrastructures. Ongoing investment in R&D ensures that software vendors have the ability to keep their users at the forefront of the latest technology developments. Legal, licensed software users enjoy many benefits which are not available to pirate users. These benefits include, the peace of mind in knowing that the software will not introduce viruses to your system, destroying mission critical data; quality and reliability guarantees from the software vendor; ongoing product updates and upgrades, services and support for those customers subscribed to appropriate support agreements.
