Piracy rate top ten list

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By Jon Gillespie-Brown | April 17, 2008

PC World reports that the largest share of software titles pirated were of the ‘productivity’ category, somewhere around 34 percent, followed by ‘operating system,’ pinned at 23 percent, while the ‘document management’ sector recorded 8 percent, the ‘creativity’ segment had 7 percent and ‘security’ had 6 percent. Some other minor categories, such as accounting, CAD and mapping, each had one percent.

The most frequently pirated software by companies top ten is as follows:

1. Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
2. Adobe Acrobat
3. Symantec PC Anywhere
4. Adobe PhotoShop
5. Autodesk AutoCAD
6. Adobe DreamWeaver
7. Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator
8. Roxio Toast Titanium - Mac only
9. Ipswitch WS_FTP
10. Nero Ultra Edition

What’s interesting is most of these vendors use either an in-house DRM system or Macrovison - neither are helping prevent piracy?

In-house is not surprising, most vendors do not have the time, engineering or money to invest in a complex encryption and robust copy protection system of their own - that costs $ Millions - and I know as I have invested that amount to create such a solution.

Adobe and Autodesk on the other hand use Macrovison, but it appears that their protection is not strong enough either.

Now to be fair to both parties, the software vendor and Macrovison, you cannot create any form of uncrackable protection but neither of these protections are particularly strong either.

Both parties could have chosen a better and stronger protection like Nalpeiron or one of the other vendors in the market - let’s hope you don’t make the same mistake.

Macrovison tends to get the attention as it’s a larger business and a market leader but that’s not a great reason to buy from them alone - size vs. technology does not guarantee success.

Adobe and Autodesk admit as much themselves as does Symantec but Nalpeiron are more interested in helping small and medium sized ISV’s get the very best protection without the cost of the big ‘names’.

Using newer and better technology allied with a SaaS model we can offer $Millions of engineering value for as little as a few $1000.

Let us help you stay off this list.

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