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Meridian Textiles Pvt Ltd installs a single-user licensed accounting package on 25 office computers after purchasing only one licence. Which description best fits this act?

Installing one single-user licence on 25 computers is software piracy, also called end-user piracy. The licence permits only limited installation, so extra copies exceed the grant and infringe the copyright owner's rights under Indian copyright law, unlike a permitted archival backup.

  1. ASoftware piracy through unlicensed copying beyond the licence termsCorrect
  2. BPermitted backup copying for archival use
  3. CLawful use under an open-source licence
  4. DFair reverse engineering for interoperability

Explanation

A single-user licence authorises installation and use on limited machines only. Installing on 25 computers exceeds the licence grant, which is software piracy (end-user piracy) and may infringe copyright under the Copyright Act, 1957. Backup copying permits only an archival copy, not parallel use.

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