Critical Thinking Questions Case 5-1 One Form of Software Theft

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 5-1 One form of software theft is the theft of the software from software manufacturers, which is known as piracy. Because this has historically been rather easy to do, the practice has become very common. As a computer instructor you feel it is your responsibility to explain this practice to students through the use of some examples. Which of the following is NOT permissible under a single-user license agreement?

• A) Jamie installs Quark Xpress on a single computer.
• B) Christine leases her copy of Dreamweaver.
• C) Phuong-Dao makes one copy of Microsoft Office 2013 as a backup.
• D) Isaiah sells his copy of Adobe Photoshop CS6, having removed it from his computer first.

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