2002 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging
verfasst von : Markus Jakobsson, Michael K. Reiter
Erschienen in: Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Most people consider frequent software updates a nuisance. However, we show how this common phenomenon can be turned into a feature that protects against software piracy. We define a protocol for “drop-in” upgrades of software that renders a large class of software piracy more traceable. A novel feature of our approach is a software aging technique by which we force the updates to occur, or else the software becomes decreasingly useful over time.