When did most piracy occur?

Answer 1

Soon after software itself. People have been making copies of software since the very beginning. Part of this is due to the culture of the early computer programmers - very much in to 'sharing' knowledge, etc. The forces that marketed software and charged a price for it were seen to be in opposition to the early "do it for the common good" kind of thinking of early programmers. So there are basically two kinds of software piracy - the kind that seeks to disseminate software programs without paying the authors because they think that 'intellectual' output has no value and should be shared, and those that just want to get software for free. Part of the problem is that much software is vastly overpriced for its cost of development.

Answer 2

If you do a lookup on the web under "History of Microsoft" you will find that Bill Gates was the first to use the term "software piracy". At the time Microsoft was a very small computer programming company that wrote programs in BASIC for IBM. People were using Microsoft's programs on other computers and he called it "piracy".

Answer 3

Whenever ships started carrying treasure.

Whenever someone in a ship wanted treasure.

There have always been and will always be greedy, lawless people and there always will be.

Whenever they first got ahold of boats, they started using the boats to steal.

Answer 4

In the 1800's or the time when pirates were most popular!

Answer 5

Piracy was prevalent before the first copyright law; in fact the first law was in response to rampant piracy in book publishing in England in the early 18th century.

Answer 6

historians believe that pirates begun in the Spanish er around about year 800 buut the question is open to debate

Answer 7

1345