What is SoftwareShield?

SoftwareShield software licensing system consists of several applications, tools, run-time components, and server components to help you best realize your business goals. Using SoftwareShield you can set up Digital Rights Management the way you want to – applying premium protection, but still making it easy for your customers to purchase and use your software products.

Key Benefits

  • Time Proven IP Protection – Yummy Interactive has been securing products and popular PC games for ten years. Intellectual Property protection means a wider retail release window in which companies can maximize profits and minimize losses due to unauthorized distribution.
  • Flexible Licensing Models – Trials, buy-and-download, micro-transactions, customized models - SoftwareShield has the superior flexibility to meet the demands of any license model or combination of models you want to employ.
  • Simple Implementation – SoftwareShield’s License Manager helps you set up new projects and with SoftwareShield's New Project Wizard you can be protecting your products in minutes.
  • Single build for both online and offline distribution - Create a unified build for the physical CD/DVD copies for your retail channels, and the online download versions for your online channels. Patches, updates - all can be more efficiently managed using SoftwareShield's tools. 
  • Easy Product Activations for Customers - Increase your sales through immediate product activations and a flexible licensing approach that is transparent to your customers.

SoftwareShield has two key functions it will manage for your software products: License Management and Enforcement, and Protection.

SoftwareShield License Management and Enforcement

SoftwareShield’s software license enforcement system allows you to create, edit, compile, test, distribute, activate and support licensed software.

License enforcement is the mechanism by which the SoftwareShield components may enforce specific license terms between your company (more specifically your application) and your customers (the end-users).

For example, if you wish to create a "trial" version of your software, where a customer can install and play the software for a limited time period, after which they must purchase the software from you or stop playing, you would utilize SoftwareShield’s Trial Model License.

Read more on SoftwareShield's licensing and activation options:

SoftwareShield’s Protection of your Content

SoftwareShield protects your software with a variety of tools built to combat illegal cracking, tampering, and copying. One protection feature of SoftwareShield is that it can be set up to check if the host machine is authorized to use the license every time your software starts (as well as checking that Activation Codes inputted are meant for the host machine). This ensures that even if a legitimate copy is unlocked and the entire hard drive is copied to another machine illegally - that the illegal copy would detect the attempt to illegally use your license. SoftwareShield employs an array of protection features that can be applied to your product in order to protect it.

Read more on SoftwareShield's protection options. For further details, visit the following SoftwareShield features:

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