Dr. A, a sociology graduate student, downloaded “NVivo 10 portable” from a torrent site to code interviews on a library computer. After two weeks, the USB drive failed; the cracked software had written excessive temporary files, corrupting the file system. Moreover, the library’s IT detected unauthorized software and revoked her computer access. She lost three months of coding work and faced a university ethics review. This real-world example (anonymized) underscores the risks.
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: Newer versions of NVivo (like NVivo 14 or Release 1) offer ways to access the software through a web browser via the myNVivo portal. University of Derby Making Your NVivo 10 Projects Portable Introduction Dr