Development of a Methodology for Piracy Protection of Software Installations

Mumtaz, Sabiha; Iqbal, Sajid; Hameed, Irfan

doi:10.1109/inmic.2005.334498

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Gan and Koh [2] used a survey technique at the three universities of Singapore for examining the perception of software piracy and to discover the mentioned factors. Mumtaz et al [13] developed a methodology for piracy protection of secure electronic software distribution.…”

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Software Piracy Awareness, Policy, and User Perspective in Educational Institutions

Liao

Nazir

Hussain

et al. 2020

Scientific Programming

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Software theft and piracy are rapidly ever-increasing problems of the present-day software industry. Software piracy is the illegal copy and use of software in a way other than that is officially documented by exclusive rights of the developer in the form of an individual or organization as described in the relevant sale agreement (license). Owing to the evolution in software development and Internet, software piracy has become a main concern for many software companies. Software companies are confronted with extremely high losses due to the piracy of software. Pirates achieve a lot of money by doing business with pirated software. General end-users of the software are not aware of this serious crime and of the legal consequences of breaking the law. Even most of the time, end-users and consumers think that it is none of their concern and not an important issue for them. Although, in reality, if an organization is working with pirated software, there is a risk of failure of the software, and it might put their organization at risk as pirated software does not receive any support from the development organization. This ultimately puts the consumer organization in huge financial loss. Due to these reasons, software piracy has turned out to be a major concern, more emergent due to the extravagant development of the software industry and the availability of software(s) on the Internet. In this paper, we analyzed and identified the ratio of software piracy, awareness regarding piracy, and the policy of the licensed software provided. Based on the results of the study, some suggestions are proposed by which the level of piracy can be reduced.

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Software Piracy Awareness, Policy, and User Perspective in Educational Institutions

Liao

Nazir

Hussain

et al. 2020

Scientific Programming

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“…To prevent software piracy without using specific devices, Mumtaz et al [11] proposed a softlock scheme that involves using hardware component characteristics and applying a Triple Data Encryption Standard to protect software licenses that contained hardware component characters. However, indicated servers must reactivate software online if it is installed a second time.…”

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A software licensing authorization scheme based on hardware component identifiers

Huang

Liao

2014

2014 International Conference on Information Science, Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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Software piracy is one of the most critical concerns of software enterprises. The illegal use of software can be prevented using several methods, such as serial number protection, donglebased protection, and online protection. Although dongle-based protection methods can protect software, these methods require additional hardware components. This paper proposes a serial number generation algorithm based on hardware component identifiers. The generated serial number can hide crucial information, such as software versions and expiration dates.

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“…Intermediate software/hardware methods are also usedtethering a program to a computer or devices signatures (CPU, RAM, ROM, BIOS, OS and etc. serial numbers, model ID and so on) [13][14][15]. Firewalls are used for the protection of internet programs [16].…”

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