Development of a Mobile Agent for preventing Software Piracy on a Network

Development of a Mobile Agent for preventing Software Piracy on a Network

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INTRODUCTION
Software piracy has affected the growth and the profitability of the software industry. It causes so much harm to software publishers when their products are duplicated without due authorization and spread across to individuals who are not licensed users or when their products are installed amongst multiple machines beyond the licensed number.
Nowadays, we are surrounded by software applications which are used
for services like online payments, social networking, games, data
management, etc. The profitability of the producers and vendors of
these software applications are negatively affected by threats such as
piracy, reverse engineering, and tampering. However, these threats are
exacerbated when these software are poorly protected. Therefore, it is
important to have a thorough threat analysis as well as software
protection schemes in order to protect the huge revenues of software
companies which increases in proportion with the wide use of
software. This protection is not only for operating systems, but also for
professional applications (e.g. graphics software) which can also be
very expensive. The illegal use of software is on the increase and with
just a few mouse clicks, people can download software product, apply
a downloaded patch to it, and start using it without payment. Vendors
realized that protecting software against malicious users is a hard
problem. The user is in control of his machine: he has physical access
to the hardware and he controls the network connectivity (Howard &
LeBlanc, 2002). The BSA (2013) explained that software piracy
creates unfair competition for legitimate companies, damages brands
through distribution of substandard products, and exposes customers to
a range of IT risks including malware, security breaches and data loss.
It also denies end-users the benefit of necessary customer support,
upgrades, technical documentation, trainings and bug fixes. These
pirated software end-users of course have no warranty to protect
themselves and they are subject to significant fines for copyright
infringement. The software vendors and manufacturers and also the
BSA with local laws in different countries have not relented in the
quest to completely prevent software piracy. Many websites today are
used to fight piracy by including linking information such as “report
software piracy”, thereby involving legitimate users of software in the
fight. Software piracy is more often practised when digital files are
made into one or more copies, thus programmers have usually come
together trying to find a way of making digital files uncopyable.
Schneier (2011) has said that trying to make digital files uncopyable is
like trying to make water not wet. Job (2011) has also argued that there
is no good technological solution to a behavioural problem. While so
many are still on the fight for piracy prevention, some others are
arguing that software piracy prevention has no perfect measure.
According to wheeler (2011), a combination of four main factors
means that no imperfect copy-protection system can be possibly safe.
In the light of his “four major factors”, he said the question shouldn’t
be “Why are software still easily pirated?”, but “Why are people still
trying to prevent it?”. So many others do believe that piracy can be
tackled with a combination of measures. A decision to totally relent on
the fight to prevent software piracy is like a decision to cease software
production all over the world and its impact will be unimaginable.


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