Designing robust copy protection for software products

  • Authors:
  • Eugene Genov

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Tourism - Varna

  • Venue:
  • CompSysTech '08 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies and Workshop for PhD Students in Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The paper begins with a short description of the situation on the software market and the various types of software piracy threatening the industry. Follows a review of the currently available methods for copy protection, with evaluation of their strong and weak points. Based on this data, a new type of hardware approach for achieving highly-efficient copy protection is suggested, followed by description of the most important issues concerning its practical implementation on a larger scale.