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Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging

Authors : Markus Jakobsson, Michael K. Reiter

Published in: Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Included 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.

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Title
Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging
Authors
Markus Jakobsson
Michael K. Reiter
Copyright Year
2002
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-540-43677-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-540-47870-6

Copyright Year: 2002

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47870-1_1

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