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  3. The unauthorized (未经授权的) copying of computer programs by American businesses alone deprived software publishers of $1.6 billion

The unauthorized (未经授权的) copying of computer programs by American businesses alone deprived software publishers of $1.6 billion

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问题     The unauthorized (未经授权的) copying of computer programs by American businesses alone deprived software publishers of $1.6 billion last year, a figure that swells to nearly $ 7.5 billion when overseas markets are included. "Industry’s loss on a global 【C1】______ is astonishing", says Ken Wasch, head of the US software Publishers Association. 【C2】______ first glance, software piracy (盗版) seems no different from 【C3】______ of any other copyrighted materials. But software is not really like other intellectual 【C4】______ . Books and videotapes can be copied only by 【C5】______ that are relatively 【C6】______ and expensive, and the product is 【C7】______ quite as good as the original. Software, on the other hand, is easily 【C8】______ , and the result is not a scratchy second- generation copy 【C9】______ a perfect working program. The rapid growth of electronic networks only 【C10】______ the problem, for it allows anyone with a computer and a modem to 【C11】______ software silently and instantaneously. More than 90 countries around the world are already 【C12】______ to the Internet, a global network that reaches a(n) 【C13】______ 25 million computer users. How to 【C14】______ this increasingly rampant(猖獗的) piracy? The publisher’s first 【C15】______ was to control it through technical means: by putting 【C16】______ in their programs 【C17】______ prevented users from copying them. This 【C18】______ worked for a while, or at least until determined pirates found ways to 【C19】______ it. 【C20】______ the codes also made it difficult for legitimate users to copy programs onto their hard drives.
【C16】
选项 A、codes
B、clues
C、signs
D、hints
答案A
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