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Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging

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Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management (DRM 2001)

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Abstract

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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  1. RSA Labs, Bedford, MA, USA

    Markus Jakobsson

  2. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Michael K. Reiter

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  1. InterTrust STAR Lab. - New Jersey, 821 Alexander Rd., Princeton, NJ, 08540-6303, USA

    Tomas Sander

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Jakobsson, M., Reiter, M.K. (2002). Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging. In: Sander, T. (eds) Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management. DRM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47870-1_1

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