Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Piracy curbing thumb drives
N Yuvaraj, D Venkatraj, Palanichamy Yogesh · 2011
Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles"Piracy Curbing Thumb Drives"by N. Yuvaraj, D. Venkatraj and P. Yogeshin the Proceedings of the International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems, November 2011After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE’s Publication Principles.This paper is a duplication of the original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:“Piracy Curbing Thumb Drives”by Bipin Rajalingam, B. Jaisonin the 3rd National Conference on Computing and Informatics, December 2009With increase in the development and distribution of software in DVD/CDs in recent times, the software piracy has become a tough problem affecting the authors of the software. Considering that the software in the DVD/CDs can be easily copied to other DVD/CDs, the piracy becomes easily possible. To address this issue, this paper proposes an approach avoiding the use of DVD/CDs and instead other devices in which piracy will not be possible. It proposes a new way of installing software and by using special thumb drives with two memories and a run once program. The two memory concept is used to separate some data from the computer. The RUN ONCE PROGRAM is used to ensure that only one initialization is made using a device. Code hiding methods like Code Obfuscation and data hiding methods like Steganography are used to ensure the data or code is not hacked. Point to Point algorithms are used to ensure that services are provided to the legal people alone and to track the activities of the users to check for any malicious activity.