Software Piracy
Piracy rate top ten list
Thursday, April 17th, 2008PC 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 […]
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“Ghosting” is the easiest way to scare the CFO
Thursday, March 20th, 2008INTRODUCTION:
As we all know “Ghost” and similar disk copying/backup applications are excellent tools for end users for cloning hard drives or for corporate rollouts.
The problem lies with the word, cloning. These programs make a copy of a partition (and sometimes the MBR) and then end users have a re-usable image of the authorized programs on […]
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One ISV’s view on life and software copy protection
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Kevin 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:
I guess MoneyWell has hit the big time: it was [k’ed]. That means that some sad individual spent his […]
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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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Top 10 Tip Sheet - Beating the software crackers
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Software anti-piracy tip sheet for application developers wishing to achieve better software copy protection.
These are general ideas on what you can do with your code and protection routines and it assumes that you are using a high quality API based protection solution and not a wrapper product.
The general rule is: Hard to crack copy protection […]
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Solving today’s Software Piracy problems
Friday, December 28th, 2007As technology and distribution media continued to evolve, the market has produced solutions that break down into four main areas.
Each of these solutions offers its own strengths and weaknesses, but all of them have one thing in common: they are still weapons in the ongoing cat-and-mouse battle between software developers and pirates, and should be […]
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How to stop the crackers ‘cracking’ your trial software
Monday, December 3rd, 2007"Trialware" or demonstration versions of Software products are an essential marketing tool for every Software Company today.
Trialware is a protected, fully functional trial version of a product.
Trialware enables customers to use the latest version of a product with all of its features fully available on a trial basis. After a predetermined trial limit (either a […]
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