Articles tagged with: software protection
Many ISV start ups looking at software licensing and copy protection issues are 
tempted by wrapper solutions. There are 3 main reasons for this:
- Wrappers are cheap
- Wrappers are easy to deploy
- You don’t need access to
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This case study shows how NIK Software dealt with 3 key software licensing challenges, which many ISV’s will recognise.
NIK Software Inc is a privately held US company that…
This is an interesting software licensing case study.
SoftCafe are a great example of how an ISV can succeed by really understanding a niche market. The company was founded in 1994 and…
No-one enjoys an audit – except maybe the auditors. But it the world of software 
licensing it looks as though audits are…
Running at 20% the USA has the lowest software piracy rate in the world.
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…
Business Week has reported on the state of Software Piracy in China – and it’s not 
a pretty picture.…
SL.tv has been watching with interest the storm in the blogosphere over 
Ubisoft’s new copy protection measures.
The new PC version of their best selling game Assassin’s Creed 2 was launched in the UK last week and no…
Saw this fun post at “pingdom” website and thought it was worth a mention to see how far copy protection has come.
You all may know that the CTO of Nalpeiron was once a cracker before he moved over…
This week I noticed that the SIIA had released a new video designed to change consumer (kid) behavior. It’s a copy of the campaign from 17 years ago and has a rapper trying to convince and educate…
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…
