CAD Enables Piracy

Jun 05, 2006

CAD Enables Piracy

CAD vendors are concerned over their software being pirated; are they as concerned when it's their software that does the pirating?

'Fortune' magazine writer Roger Parloff put CAD in the spotlight of the product counterfeiting industry in his article, 'Not Exactly Counterfeit':

"The prong of the problem everyone understands is that technological advances in printing, scanning, 3-D modeling, and so on have made copying through reverse-engineering easier and cheaper than ever. And if you ask any brand owner why counterfeits are so convincing these days, that's the answer you'll get."

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