In its definition of illegal, SIIA officials counted backup copies of software, as well as CD-RW software, regardless of whether the owner had a license or not.

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It's a snap to install and use, is the speediest CD-RW drive we tested, and comes with a raft of software besides the usual CD creation utilities.

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The drive will include packet writing software for CD-RW and Cequadrat JustBurn for creating data and audio CDs.

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EBay has tried to counter this by making it impossible to search for certain words, such as "backup" and "CD-RW, " in the software category.

CNN: Technology - New online software piracy emerges

We then install each drive, noting any difficulties, and load the bundled software for CD-R and CD-RW writing.

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