One of the perils facing software publishers is the wholesale pirating of the copyrighted computer programs they produce and market. The problem arises because an unprotected program on a floppy disk, like music on a cassette or a movie on videotape, can easily be copied. Anyone with a personal computer and two disk drives need only insert an original disk in drive A, put a blank disk in drive B and type a few commands. In a matter of seconds, there will be a perfect, albeit illegal, copy of a program that in a computer store might cost hundreds of dollars.
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