Designing robust copy protection for software products
Eugene P. Genov · 2008
The paper begins with a short description of the situation on the software market and the various types of software piracy threatening the industry. Follows a review of the currently available methods for copy protection, with evaluation of their strong and weak points. Based on this data, a new type of hardware approach for achieving highly-efficient copy protection is suggested, followed by description of the most important issues concerning its practical implementation on a larger scale.