<正> Software piracy,illegal software duplication,seems to beas rampant as an epidemic disease all over the world andboth software publishers and government officials are frus-trated.The loss for the software publishers due to the unau-thorized copying of computer programs amounted to ■1.6 bil-lion in the U.S.The figure could reach ■7.5 billion if over-seas markets were included.Some countries such as Italy tried