How to Fight Internet Software Piracy

If your artefact isn't concrete in nature--a new font, a allotment of agenda art, or a software suite, for example--then aircraft issues don't access into the equation. What does access into the equation, however, is the botheration of piracy.

The abundant advantage of an advice abridgement is that its articles crave actual little in the way of assembly costs to distribute--all you accept to do is pay the bandwidth costs all-important to accelerate the book to your customers. But the abundant carnality of an advice abridgement is absolutely the aforementioned thing: files on a computer can be produced so calmly that burglary your artefact is as simple as award a way to download it after your knowledge. (As anyone complex in the music industry already knows.) This is a botheration beneath any circumstances, of course, but it becomes an exponentially greater botheration with time. If one being downloads your artefact after your knowledge, that isn't a austere issue. If that being again posts your artefact on a accessible book server or peer-to-peer network, however, again hundreds of bodies can download it--which is a very, actual austere affair for you.

So you'll charge to booty measures to anticipate piracy. A abounding altercation of that is alfresco the ambit of this book, of course, but actuality are a few ideas:

Never accommodate a absolute download articulation for your product--meaning never articulation to the product's book on any server. Use alter techniques to accumulate bodies from alive absolutely area your artefact is on the Internet--and from again disseminating that information. A acceptable coder can advice you with this.

Only accomplish your artefact accessible in an encrypted form, and crave barter to access a cipher in adjustment to alleviate the content. Barter can again download the artefact freely--you'd aloof be affairs the cipher to alleviate the freely-downloadable file.

Require barter to annals your product, and digitally "mark" their book already they annals it with you. This is basically the aforementioned address acclimated to action concrete theft: putting different consecutive numbers on the product. This way, if you alpha seeing pirated copies of your agreeable on the Internet, you can analysis the pirated archetype adjoin your records, actuate who broadcast the abounding adaptation of your product, and booty whatever measures are necessary.

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