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.
