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14 / 07 / 2026
Please note: this fatwa has been translated by artificial intelligence.
Buying and Selling Pirated Software
What is the ruling on using programs like Windows and Office and others that are cracked, meaning I go to a website and download them for free or buy a 'CD' for a dinar or something similar, knowing that the manufacturing company sells them?
Answer
I say, and with God's help: It is permissible to benefit from it even without permission from the company; for the sake of spreading knowledge and preventing monopoly, and what is taken as fees for copying and transferring it is permissible, and God knows best.
