Dialog around the issue of piracy at both the public and government levels is good. It’s a step in the right direction. The legislation itself, however, is misguided and has no chance for success as a tool to stamp out piracy. Therefore, we do not support it in its current form.
FAST polled UK office workers about their attitudes toward pirated software and the use of unlicensed software in the workplace. An “astonishing” 49 percent simply didn’t care if the software they used at work was legally licensed or not. Less than a quarter of all respondents would consider reporting piracy.
Many of the ISVs we work with use TRL to help defeat simple license key generators for their applications…. Now over the years since TRL’s introduction, we seen some clever methods used to bypass TRL to enable piracy of the application.
EE Times’ Dylan McGrath has reported on electronic design automation (EDA) vendor AWR Corp. filing a complaint in U.S. federal court against telecom equipment supplier ZTE. AWR alleges that ZTE has installed and used unlicensed versions of its software. The complaint details an interesting picture of software piracy “brought by a small but successful technology [...]
Join us on August 18 for a new webinar: Piracy is a challenge for software vendors to address because they are unsure if they have a problem, can’t measure how much revenue they are losing, or don’t know how to identify the businesses using unlicensed software.
V.i. Labs hosted a license compliance panel discussion on "Best Practices for Generating, Investigating and Converting License Compliance Opportunities" featuring guest speakers from Dassault Systèmes, Sullivan & Worcester, and Software Compliance Group.
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The 2011 BSA Global Software Piracy Study claims a $63 billion global piracy problem with 57% of users admitting they pirate software, but enforcement techniques like whistle blower campaigns and take down notices can yield bad PR. Software Intelligence solutions enable vendors to shine a light on what the BSA calls the “shadow market” by [...]
Read MoreV.i. Labs’ top customers have identified more than $2.4 billion in revenue recovery opportunity since deploying CodeArmor® Intelligence; a sample of customers sharing results have reported gains of new license revenue of more than $100 million since 2011 using software intelligence data.
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