Software Licensing
« Previous EntriesUnlicensed Software Attacks the Bottom Line
Monday, October 20th, 2008A new study confirms software misuse costs vendors billions. Here are strategies for reducing revenue loss.
By Tom Lamoureux, KPMG
See this link for an interesting article on SandHill.com.
http://www.sandhill.com/opinion/editorial.php?id=170&page=1
When DRM goes wrong…EA’s Spore is less friendly than my recent colonoscopy…
Monday, September 8th, 2008How much is bad PR damaging your company due to poor DRM or licensing technology?
I hate to think how bad "222 customer reviews, with 194 of them giving the game one star" is affecting sales?
Why is this?…
A great example of a software asset management policy
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008I came across this excellent page for students at Cornell, it’s a clear and effective page about how to correctly use, manage, monitor and control the school’s software assets.
The reason I post this is because it could also…
$1 million reward…report the sale of illegal software over the Internet!
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008I am very happy to report that the BSA have announced they are stepping up their campaigns with the addition of Internet based software pirates.
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is announcing the expansion of its $1 million rewards
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VS Live a big hit!
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Nalpeiron attended the VS Live show with two stands and got over 300 registered visitors to discuss our new and exciting Hosted Nalpeiron Licensing Service.
Over just 3 days over half of the conference delegates visited with us…
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…
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…
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…
New to software copy protection?
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008The first thing to understand about protecting applications from Piracy is that the real cost of this process is generally at the ‘back end’, in other words the costs of supporting and rolling out products including copy protection technologies…
“Wrap up” warm for winter….as the crackers get to work on your software
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Wrappers may make you feel all safe and warm – but this is a false feeling! Learn why in this article.
Evolving from the loader based mechanisms found in some software protection systems, software wrappers are considered by many…
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