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September 08, 2006

Software Piracy Is Well Organized

These two recent examples show how organized the business of software piracy is:

From this it is very clear that software publishers have to invest in a multi-pronged anti-piracy strategy and not rely on Government initiatives to protect their software. A comprehensive strategy has to not only include license management controls but investment in software protection technology that deters reverse engineering attacks.  Many vendors still prioritize the inadvertent piracy and license overuse within their customer base, and ignore the more sophisticated reverse engineering threat used by the “warez” community.