After cleaning up its accounting scandals, Dell next decided to enter other businesses like providing turnkey software packages to major corporations, copying the approach of major tech firms like IBM, by buying Perot systems.

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There are no instructions to read, no software to install and configure, no copying and pasting files, it's really that easy.

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Copying all those pages presents many difficulties, but writing software to make the books useful to searchers is even harder.

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Sony ( SNE - news - people ) in 2005 for secretly downloading copyright protection software onto people's computers to prevent CD copying.

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The anti-piracy software loaded onto the CDs was meant to stop illegal copying, but it was found that the program inadvertently made computers vulnerable to viruses.

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And software is already covered under copyright law, which offers extensive legal protections against wholesale copying.

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