A Buyer’s Guide to Software Intelligence Solutions

Description: For Decades, Software Providers Have Struggled to Address the Frustrating and Costly Challenge of Piracy As they have sought to deter piracy through increasingly aggressive technical approaches, pirates have responded with growing sophistication. Software protection and licensing strategies, while still important, merely delay piracy—often, only briefly. These strategies focus on the few crackers who enjoy the challenge of removing license enforcement, and do nothing about quantifying true adoption of pirated software, or converting adopters into customers. Other approaches, such as reliance on whistleblowers and random auditing, also offer limited potential. Yet piracy cannot be ignored: too much money is being lost.