Archive for February, 2008
The question "isn’t whether or not to fight piracy, but what is the best way to fight it".
Friday, February 29th, 2008Russell Carroll (Ricochet) reveals that one of his Company’s games has a 92% piracy rate!
“It looks like around 92% of the people playing the full version of Ricochet Infinity pirated it.”
Knowing many other gaming companies these is not that unusual - what is odd is that so little has been done to effectively fight […]
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The risks of VMWare and how it works with software copy protection
Sunday, February 24th, 2008INTRODUCTION
As we all know VMware is an excellent tool for developers, especially for testing and cloning.
The problem lies with the last word, cloning. This is like the problem we encounter with the use of disk backup programs like Ghost. These programs make a copy of a partition and the MBR and then end users have […]
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Macrovision sells off licensing business - the end has arrived?
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Well we could see this coming, but what does it mean for Macrovision customers?
Our friends still inside Macrovision tell us that there has been a ‘yahoo’ effect with most of the talented people gone or going, so will the new owners a "private equity investment firm" be able to attract new talent?
Thoma Cressey Bravo are […]
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Macrovision-Gemstar Deal Worries Analysts - Have they given up on their software licensing business?
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Have Macrovision given up on their software licensing business?
Macrovision are well known for their Flex range of software licensing products but the focus seems increasingly to be elsewhere nowadays.
You can’t blame them, they make a ton of money from DRM technology and not much from their Software unit in comparison - so why waste time […]
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Ex-Safenet CFO gets prison term- what next for Software Licensing top guns?
Monday, February 4th, 2008Macrovision is moving away from Software licensing, or so it seems, and Safenet are in big trouble for corporate governance?
What is happening to the Software Licensing top guns…
Here at Nalpeiron we are simply focused on delivering a value solution for 1000’s software developers - total focus on our customers needs, no distractions.
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The problem with dongles
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008The dongle sounds like an ideal solution, but it suffers from some underlying problems that affect the end user and the software developer alike. These can be collected together into a few categories:
Using physical media causes physical problems
Physical devices can be lost more easily, especially small form factor devices such as a dongle. A customer […]
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