Global Dynamic Timelines for IPRs Harmonization Against Software Piracy

increasing global software piracy rates

oftware piracy is a worldwide phenomenon. In 2001, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) [1] found there are no nations with less than a 20% piracy rate, and two that exceeded 90% (see Figure 1). It is estimated that in 2001 software manufacturers lost $10.97 billion globally as a result of software piracy [1]. Furthermore, in most regions of the world, piracy increased by 37% in 2000 and by 40%...

Bundling of Software Products and Services to Fight against Piracy

Bundling has been a widely used selling strategy in the software industry. In terms of fighting against software piracy, the bundling of software applications that are prone to different levels of piracy has been proposed as a way to minimize the negative impact due to software piracy. Until recently, software implementations have mostly been at the client’s end, which requires a variety of ant...

The Ethical and Economical Arguments against Software Piracy

This paper will present and focus mainly on the arguments against Software Piracy, specifically its impact on the global economy and ethical values. A short definition of will be provided, along with examples and types of Software Piracy. This will be followed by a quick look at the arguments of the supporters, to provide some background and lead up to the rebut from the detractors. Finally, a ...

Rethinking Software Piracy: Active Software Rights Verification for Effective Control of Piracy

Hidden Markov Models for Software Piracy Detection

In this paper, we analyze a method for detecting software piracy. A metamorphic generator is used to create morphed copies of a base piece of software. A hidden Markov model is trained on the opcode sequences extracted from these morphed copies and the resulting trained model is used to score suspect software to determine its similarity to the base software. A high score indicates that the susp...