Software Piracy Protection & Security

Software is Intellectual Property. Highly valuable, it must be protected from unauthorized use in order to ensure new and existing revenue streams. software piracy continues to increase globally. The effects of this increase are devastating: not only does software piracy reduce revenues, it also results in less R&D, and in less investment in marketing and channel development. The only way to stop software piracy before it happens is to implement a strong software DRM solution to protect your software from unauthorized use.

* BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study, May 2008.

**IDC used the following basic research architecture to measure piracy rates:

• Determined how much packaged software was put into use in 2007.
• Determined how much packaged software was paid for/legally acquired in 2007.
• Subtracted one from the other to get the amount of pirated software.

Want to learn more?

• What is Software Piracy?
• Types of Software Piracy
• Why Protect Your Software?
• Five Myths about Software Copy Protection
• Evaluation Standards
• Piracy Calculator
• BSA/IDC Global Software Piracy Study (PDF)