Yes, for purpose of back-up for instance.
gives you the right to copy software onto a single computer
DVD ripper software is legal to use in most countries as long as one is only making a personal copy and not giving them to others. In American it is not legal to make even a personal copy of software or media that is copy protected.
No. The pirated software is still illegal. You have the legal copy; use it or replace it in the proper way.
Just like a book or a movie, computer software can be owned. If you copy it without permission from the owner, you are violating their ownership rights and effectively stealing a copy of it.
If you have a legal copy then the registration code is inside. Else you cannot get one
Did you mean Software piracy? It is when someone takes software that is for sale and uses it without paying. An example would be: If you were to go out and buy a game for your computer and install it on your computer. Your friend comes over and likes the game, but instead of going to the store and buying a copy for themselves, they "borrow" your copy and install it on their computer. They have now pirated a copy as they have not paid the software developer for the use of the game.
No - the copy your college has been bought by, and is licensed to the college itself. You have no legal right to download their software without permission.
Yes, think of it as DVD burning. If you make a copy of someone else's DVD it is illegal. Same as with computer software. Both are copyrighted.
As long as it's your only installation, yes. What you pay for is a single license, not the copy of the software... So, you could use any copy of the software with the license key you paid for, but you can't legally use it on more than one computer at the same time.
Hello, Norton Ghost, is a programme, that when you install it into your Computer, it works away in the background and makes an exact copy of your Computer Software and all of your files.
That virus was written by two brothers who were trying to make a living selling software to honest people. They discovered one day that for every legal copy of a programs they sold up to ten other people were using the software. The virus the brothers wrote did not work if you used a legal copy of the program it only did damage when you copied the program 'for a friend to use'.
When a computer manufacturer takes one copy of a particular software, and illegally installs it on more than one computer, it performs pre installed piracy.