Cant copy to Lacie Hard drive

I have a lacie hard drive that i use mostly with my pc. I had some files on my macbook that I wanted to put on that hard drive but when i try to copy them it wont let me and says that the file cant be modified. what can i do?

Your PC-oriented drive is undoubtedly formatted NTFS. Drives in that format are read-only for the Mac OS, unless you install third-party software such as NTFS-3G (freeware) or Tuxera NTFS (commercial) that enables full access to them.

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