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Could Cloud Computing spell the end of Software Piracy?
March 26, 2010 – 4:20 am | One Comment

The world’s software industry – and the world economy as a whole – lose kaifu lee 300x199 Could Cloud Computing spell the end of Software Piracy?$billions each year to software…

Vendors Must Get Closer to Their Customers to Effectively Deploy New Software Licensing Models
March 24, 2010 – 2:44 am | One Comment

For years CIO’s and software vendors alike have bemoaned the limited pricing economist CIO 300x199 Vendors Must Get Closer to Their Customers to Effectively Deploy New Software Licensing Modelsoptions…

USA Leads the way in Copy Protection.
March 23, 2010 – 5:44 am | No Comment

Running at 20% the USA has the lowest software piracy rate in the world.

scales final 300x199 USA Leads the way in Copy Protection.Is this because Americans are just naturally more law abiding than say the British, or New Zealanders, or the Swiss?

Well maybe, but it could…

Software Piracy Rate FALLS to 80% in China?
March 16, 2010 – 12:19 am | No Comment

Business Week has reported on the state of Software Piracy in China – and it’s not iStock 000009361489XSmall 300x264 Software Piracy Rate FALLS to 80% in China?a pretty picture.…

Apple App Store Has Lost $450 Million To Piracy
January 13, 2010 – 3:05 pm | No Comment

Garrett W. McIntyre with Phil MacDonald of 24/7 Wall St claims in it’s research that piracy is rampant on App Store Apps due to the lack of security.

In their article of January 13 they say:

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ISV Viewpoint Podcast: Talking Software Licensing with the VP of the US Institute of Languages
September 10, 2009 – 1:33 pm | No Comment

PODCAST: Views and discussion about the use of Software Licensing in an ISV

Software Licensing PodcastIn this podcast Jason D. Poole, Senior VP of the US Institute of Languages, discusses his candid views on Software Licensing, Software Piracy and Software Copy…

New research outlines “Software Piracy Approaches” and those responsible
July 27, 2009 – 12:47 pm | No Comment

V.i. Laboratories released new research showing how pirates go about “cracking” software the key groups responsible.

As the Flex platform from Acresso is most pervasive in the group studied (software with an average value of more than $4,000 USD…

What is Software licensing?
June 19, 2009 – 1:34 pm | No Comment

Software licensing is a contract of agreement between a software publisher and an end user of the licensed application.

This tends to be regulated via a document called the End User License Agreement, or EULA. Though software licensing…

The history of Software copy protection
June 19, 2009 – 1:31 pm | No Comment

The problem with copy protection as a concept is that it creates as many questions as it solves.

There are many different types of copy protection working at many different levels. Companies wanting to protect their source code…