Anti Piracy

Commercial Software

Commercial software piracy costs companies billions of dollars worldwide every year.

This directly effects your company's bottom line, your shareholders, your customers and your employees.  Software prices are forced up, which can lead to unhappy customers and staff redundancies.  Eventually this may even cost you your company itself. Are YOU Dating a Narcissist? Find Out Here?

Shareware

That's it, you've finally finished.  

Months or years of work slaving away, evenings, weekends, holidays.  You've neglected your family and friends but it will all be worth it now your product is finally ready for sale.  You release it onto a web site and sit back and wait for the money to roll in.

But it doesn't...  

You often find that, within hours of releasing your 'baby' to the world, cracks and key generators for it appear all over the Net.

Crackers use stolen copies of commercial debuggers such as SoftIce and simply reverse engineer your copy protection code.  It's normally done just for the kudos or at the request of someone who is too cheap to pay for your hard work.  It takes a good cracker only minutes, but once it's done you can say goodbye to any rewards for all your hard work.  It is one of the worst feelings in the world (we know!).  Use any search engine to see for yourself exactly how large this problem is (crack and keygen are frightening keywords to use).

"How can CipherPack help?"

Simply encrypt your Setup.exe installation file with CipherPack.  Crackers cannot reverse engineer what they cannot see.

Post it onto your web site as normal.  Anyone can download it but you only supply the unlock key to people who have purchased the product.  Change the key on a regular basis and your product is safe from the crackers.

For an example of this process in place click here  Yes we use it to protect CipherPack itself!

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Last modified: June 29, 2004