SoftwareShield Licensing Directory
- These valuable organizations offer
piracy reporting and critical information on how to prevent
and manage attacks from pirates and crackers.
Anti-Crack
and Crackers Organization (AC&C)
Non-profit organization devoted to stop any kind of
distribution of cracked sharware and commercial software,
stop crackers, educating against piracy, helping ISP to
avoid illegal traffic.
Business
Software Alliance (BSA)
The Business Software Alliance is the foremost organization
dedicated to promoting a safe and legal digital world. BSA
is the voice of the world's commercial software industry
and its hardware partners before governments and in the
international marketplace.
Canadian
Alliance Against Software Theft (CAAST)
CAAST provides educational information to corporations,
consumers and resellers about software piracy and its implications.
This non-profit organization also protects the rights of
its member companies against the unauthorized sale or reproduction
of software through the support of the legal prosecution
of individuals or groups involved in this unlawful activity.
Federation
Against Software Theft (FAST)
FAST was set up in 1984 by the British Computer Society's
Copyright Committee. It was the first software copyright
organisation and has raised awareness of software piracy.
FAST has since been able to influence other legislation
that impacts on the proper safeguarding of software.
Software
& Information Industry Association (SIIA)
The Software & Information Industry Association is the
principal trade association for the software and digital
content industry. SIIA provides global services in government
relations, business development, corporate education and
intellectual property protection to the leading companies
that are setting the pace for the digital age.
Internal SoftwareShield Resources
- These links provide information about
several of the most common topics of interest for clients
wishing to license and protect thier software with SoftwareShield.
SoftwareShield
Software Licensing System (Home Page)
Software licensing system, copy
protection, anti-hacker, anti-cracker, toolkit, SDK and
much more. http://www.softwareshield.com/
What
is a software licensing system?
Explains the basics of what comprises
a professional software licensing system. Begins to explain
what some of the possible problems you can encounter if
you choose to not use a commercial software licensing system.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Introduction/software-licensing-system.htm
What
is copy protection?
Explains the basics of what copy
protection is and how it works with FingerPrinting. Examines
how copy protection can help make your software more secure
- even in the face of complete disk cloning.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Introduction/copy-protection.htm
What
is steganographic licensing?
Explains the basics of steganography.
Explains how steganographic licensing works to augment your
copy protected and licensed applications. Gives an actual
image example illustrating how secure the steganographic
embedding algorithm is.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Introduction/steganographic-licensing.htm
How
does the system work?
Explains in some depth how the SoftwareShield
System works. Examines license files, activation codes,
generating activation codes, and puts them into context
using an example. The example is a step-by-step scenario
that illustrates a full purchase cycle - from when the customer
visits your site, through a purchase, to when they receive
their activation code from you.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Introduction/Overview.htm
Anti-Piracy,
Anti-Hacker Tools and Guide
Explains the Anti-Hacker and Anti-Piracy
resources the SoftwareShield System provides your development
team to engineer software that is more resistant to attack.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Introduction/anti-piracy-hacker.htm
SoftwareShield
licensing system benefits
Covers many of the main benefits
your organization will receive when you choose to use the
SoftwareShield System SDK.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Introduction/Benefits.htm
License
models
Examines many of the fundamental
licensing models achievable using the SoftwareShield license
manager to create your licenses. Naturally, countless more
models are achievable by combining the fundamental types
or designing your own model by using our extremely flexible
and feature-rich license manager.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Introduction/license-models.htm
Creating
licenses with the SoftwareShield license manager
Explains the basic steps you will
need to perform to create licenses using the SoftwareShield
license manager. The SoftwareShield license manager is easy
to use and you can create a new license from scratch in
just minutes.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Products/creating-licenses-license-manager.htm
Integrating
the ClientProtector™ into your applications
Explains the basic steps you need
to do to be able to link to the ClientProtector COM component
in your applications.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Products/IntegrationClientProtector.htm
Generating
activation codes using the SoftwareShield Manual-Activator™
Discusses how to generate activation
codes using the SoftwareShield Manual-Activator™. The steps
are very simple and the interface leads you through the
process in just seconds.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Products/GenerateManualACG.htm
Generating
activation codes using the SoftwareShield Web-Activator™
Discusses how to deploy and configure
the SoftwareShield Web-Activator™ to automatically generate
activation codes for your paying customers over the web.
Sell your software, hands-off, 24 hours a day - 7 days a
week.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Products/GenerateAutomatedACG.htm
Software
license hosting service
Introduces the SoftwareShield License
Hosting Service. Ideal for SoftwareShield Internet Edition
clients who choose not to host their own IIS web-server
or simply want someone else to handle the server maintenance.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Products/License-Hosting.htm
Technical
support for the SoftwareShield licensing system SDK
Lists the technical support agreement
terms for the SoftwareShield System SDK.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Support/support.htm
Download
a free trial of the SoftwareShield licensing system SDK
Download a free trial version of
the SoftwareShield System SDK today.
http://www.softwareshield.com/Download/download.asp
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