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Research Seminar - June 08, 2001

Seminar Announcement


Title: Software Piracy and Copy Protection Techniques
Speaker: David Low
  Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, UWA
Date: Friday 8th June, 2001
Time: 2.00m
Venue: Room 1.24

Abstract:

Born with the personal computer industry, software piracy remains the ugly adjunct the computer industry today. Worldwide revenue losses for business application software in 1999 is estimated at US$12.2 billion alone, an increase of 34% over the previous year. The SIIA also claims software piracy causes job losses, cites lost taxation for governments and increases the price of software for legitimate users. With all of the copy protection techniques implemented, legal action taken and educational programmes tried, why do these figures continue to grow from year to year? I will be looking at the reasons why people pirate software and what we can do to reduce software piracy. I will also examine current and theoretical copy protection techniques: how they work and what weaknesses they have.
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