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« Previous EntriesSoftware licensing Industry still consolidating!
Monday, January 12th, 2009Only this month our industry has downsized by 2 major players!
Acresso has acquired Intraware.
Acresso Software (Acresso), a privately-held company and an investment of private equity firm Thoma Bravo, LLC, announced today it has completed the acquisition of
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The software pirate scene…2009
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Just read an interesting article on the software pirate scene and it noted one important fact for our customers:
The economic downturn could presage an upswing in piracy next year, despite ongoing legal campaigns by the Business Software Alliance,
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A great free tool to help with the UAC blues
Sunday, December 14th, 2008I just read about this excellent tool for helping with end user hassles with UAC.
If you deploy this toll (with permission) to your end users you could make life a lot easier for yourself, as installing security software…
Bush enacts PRO-IP anti-piracy law
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008U.S. President George W. Bush Monday signed into law a bill designed to increase protection of intellectual property (IP) such as software, films and music by raising penalties for infringement and creating a national "IP czar."
So reports…
Microsoft SLPS software licensing service has been terminated!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008This is another illustration that the world’s leading suppliers of
software licensing and DRM are in flux.
First it was problems at SafeNet with their ex CFO being embroiled in an illegal options scandal; then…
Downturn spurs on software pirates
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Survey suggests current climate may prompt more UK businesses to try and cut costs by not being appropriately licensed
Written by Doug Woodburn
The channel may face a tougher job fighting piracy as the economic downturn begins to…
Nalpeiron offers DeepSea Obfuscator with NLS
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Nalpeiron and Tall Applications have entered into a marketing relationship to offer a special "licensing and protection" bundle to the ISV community.
From August 2008, all Nalpeiron sales (product IDs) will include a one year free subscription to DeepSea…
Innovative use of licensing for SaaS companies
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008How to effectively license your software using short term payment subscriptions (SaaS) using the Nalpeiron Licensing Service (NLS).
Account Manager for Nalpeiron, Lee Evans, has been working with several very interesting major projects that involve the hybrid use of…
Standing up to EBay’s software piracy epidemic…finally
Monday, March 10th, 2008For years people have been trying to get eBay to remove pirates from the auction site who are selling cracked copies of their products.
eBay’s refrain “it’s not our fault, we are just the marketplace”…baloney, they don’t want to…
One ISV’s view on life and software copy protection
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Kevin Hoctor has something to say on the world of software copy protection and it’s not what you think!
OK so he is fed up with those who wish to rip him off and have cracked his software:
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