A Study On The Problem Of Anti-pirate Computer Software In China

The issue of pirate software is still an enormous challenge faced by the whole software industry in the world. Relevant documents show that the percentage of pirate software installed in PCs all over the world in 2004 is 35%, which caused a sharp increase of loss from 29 billion dollars in 2003 to 33 billion dollars and seriously impacted the whole software industry.This essay mainly analyses the phenomenon of pirate computer software and studies the way of thinking to improve the ability of anti pirate software.Firstly, makes use of the public economics theories to analyze the reason of pirate software phenomenon from the aspects of its market foundation and its economic social welfare effect; Makes use of the law sociology theories to analyze its effects and banes; Induces some widely existing misunderstandings about the issue of pirate software in society.Next, reviews our country instead pirates (software copyright protection) the legislation advancement and public policies vicissitude, the reconsidering public policies vicissitude power is insufficient in, outside presses far is bigger than needs, lacks the Chinese native place the experience participation and take the national condition as the foundation. Our country is in one kind of law relatively quite to be perfect at present, but on the other hand pirates the awkward aspect which the reality quite serious contradiction coexists, fully exposes our country instead to pirate the result barely satisfactory, but also has the very big promotion space.Third, instead pirates the efficiency using the correlation case to our country to carry on the analysis. Facing changes with each new day diverse pirates the form and the law enforcement agency is in a dilemma the situation present situation, causes instead to pirate the efficiency not to be high, at the same time the legal public policies is imperfect and in the society to pirates the phenomenon the cognition erroneous zone also to cause instead to pirate the effect not to be good.Last but not least, on the basis of the above analysis, puts forward the suggestion on improving the enforcing ability of public policy on anti pirate software. That is, to improve from the aspects of law, enforcing the law and the society. Anti pirate software is a heavy and important mission. There is still a long way to go. Our final target is to reach an effective achievement on the spreading of copyright in the whole society and let the public boycott the pirate software from its own heart.