"Casual copying" is the prohibited copying or distribution of copyrighted software. It is characterized by sharing and installing multiple copies of the product onto home and office computers, which infringes on the software's end-user license agreement (EULA). Unauthorized copying is very widespread today and accounts for a large portion of the economic losses in the shareware industry. According to the findings of the fifth annual study conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide software piracy rate in 2007 increased by three percentage points to 38%, leading to nearly $48 billion of lost revenues for software vendors.
All shareware developers are looking for effective solutions to secure their programs from pirates and ensure a smooth licensing and activation experience for end users. IntelliProtector's licensing and activation service gives shareware vendors the confidence to securely distribute their products online and manage shareware license usage with ease.
With IntelliProtector services, software developers can:
- Achieve anti-cracking protection against piracy through encryption of software code, web activation and delivery of the license code to the end user. IntelliProtector provides the vendor with many customizable hardware binding properties and anti-crack settings to protect software products from hackers and eliminate its unauthorized use with a minimal impact on licensed users.
- Create time-limited or feature-limited trials. Lock up a license key automatically if there are too many attempts to activate the product using one license code.
- Integrate licensing and activation with almost all popular registration services, such as BMTMicro, PayPal, SWReg, ShareIt, Plimus, 2CheckOut, Emetrix, RegNow.
- Track license codes, manage and search for orders, manage account information, buy extra services, submit tickets to the technical support and do many other operations from a single "command center" - the IntelliProtector online panel.
- Gain insight into software usage and fine tune marketing efforts with summarized or detailed statistics delivered in various reports and charts.
- Put software in the hands of more customers with the help of resellers. Enable resellers to generate license keys for the software and monitor this process.
