Piracy Prevention Research Articles

Software Piracy Protection

ABSTRACT : Software piracy has been major issue for software industries. Piracy has become so prevalent over the Internet that poses a major threat to software product companies. With the help of malicious codes and programs, hackers or an intruder can gain access to Software the system and steal the information. Piracy by users is generally believed to harm both software firms(through lower profits) and buying customers (through higher prices).This project is intended to maintain software piracy protection and assures that it is being accessed only by the authenticated users . Software piracy continues to be a significant challenge for developers, with billions of dollars lost annually due to unauthorized distribution and use of copyrighted software. This abstract proposes a comprehensive overview of strategies and innovations aimed at combating software piracy and safeguarding intellectual property rights. The abstract begins by delineating the various forms of software piracy prevalent in today’s digital landscape, including illegal downloads, counterfeit distribution, and unauthorized copying. It highlights the economic ramifications for developers, ranging from revenue loss to diminished innovation incentives. Subsequently, the abstract surveys existing piracy protection measures, such as license key activation, digital rights management (DRM) systems, and encryption techniques. While effective to a certain extent, these traditional methods often face circumvention by sophisticated hackers and crackers. KEYWORDS : Software Piracy, Anti-piracy measures, Piracy prevention, Intellectual property protection, Licence management, Encryption

Software Protection

ABSTRACT : Software piracy has been major issue for software industries. Piracy has become so prevalent over the Internet that poses a major threat to software product companies. With the help of malicious codes and programs, hackers or an intruder can gain access to Software the system and steal the information. Piracy by users is generally believed to harm both software firms(through lower profits) and buying customers (through higher prices).This project is intended to maintain software piracy protection and assures that it is being accessed only by the authenticated users . Software piracy continues to be a significant challenge for developers, with billions of dollars lost annually due to unauthorized distribution and use of copyrighted software. This abstract proposes a comprehensive overview of strategies and innovations aimed at combating software piracy and safeguarding intellectual property rights. The abstract begins by delineating the various forms of software piracy prevalent in today’s digital landscape, including illegal downloads, counterfeit distribution, and unauthorized copying. It highlights the economic ramifications for developers, ranging from revenue loss to diminished innovation incentives. Subsequently, the abstract surveys existing piracy protection measures, such as license key activation, digital rights management (DRM) systems, and encryption techniques. While effective to a certain extent, these traditional methods often face circumvention by sophisticated hackers and crackers. KEYWORDS : Software Piracy, Anti-piracy measures, Piracy prevention, Intellectual property protection

Trajectories of Software Piracy and Multi-Domain Predictors

This study aims to deepen the understanding of software piracy through a developmental perspective and risk and protective factors approach. We employ group-based trajectory modeling to identify the trajectories of software piracy and investigate the influence of various risk and protective factors via a series of multinomial logistic regressions. Youth engagement in software piracy generally increases over time, but there exist different patterns (i.e., increasing, decreasing, adolescent peak). In addition, various risk and protective factors demonstrated varying degrees of ability to distinguish software piracy trajectories. The findings of the study suggest the necessity of a comprehensive approach to software piracy prevention programs.

Prevention of Piracy in Entertainment Media Sector Using Blockchain Technology

Abstract: In the recent decade with the improvement in network technology and easy access to cheap internet plans, more than 59% of the world is online. [1] With the growing online population, illegal redistribution of digital content is also growing, costing content creators and owners millions of dollars. Blockchain, the revolutionary technology behind the popular crypto currency Bitcoin, has been deemed as a great solution for resolving piracy issues. This paper first looks into the blockchain technology and identifies the ways in which piracy is carried out. Then it proposes novel solutions in which blockchain technology can be used to prevent piracy in the entertainment media sector.

A Hybrid SVD-Based Image Watermarking Scheme Utilizing Both U and V Orthogonal Vectors for Robustness and Imperceptibility

SVD-based watermarking algorithm is one of the most preferable algorithms for copyright protection due to its singular values (SVs) that have outstanding stability and represents intrinsic algebraic image properties. Hence, there is a good trade-off between robustness and imperceptibility. However, most SVD-based algorithms have been tested against conventional attacks, such as image manipulations, that do not fully exploit adversary’s knowledge. These algorithms are vulnerable to false-positive problem, where an adversary’s watermark can be detected in the watermarked image although it was never inserted. The underlying problem is due to the strong influence of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$U$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V$ </tex-math></inline-formula> orthogonal vectors of SVD on an image. In order to solve false-positive problem, <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$UV$ </tex-math></inline-formula> can be used to embed the watermark together with SVs. However, this solution is not ideal as <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$U$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V$ </tex-math></inline-formula> hold important structural information of an image and is hypersensitivity to even a little change in <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$UV$ </tex-math></inline-formula> vectors. Therefore, this research has the objectives to analyse the robustness of existing SVD-based watermarking algorithms that are using orthogonal vectors and then propose a new robust algorithm that is able to solve false-positive problem and sensitivity issued caused by scaling factor. Hence, a new transform domain image watermarking scheme that utilized both <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$U$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V$ </tex-math></inline-formula> orthogonal vectors is proposed with the usage of Human Visual System (HVS), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and SVD. Experimental results showed that the proposed scheme is more robust against majority types of image processing and geometrical attacks compared to existing schemes while achieving good quality watermarked image level. The significance of new algorithm comes at the right time during the Covid-19 epidemic as organizations involving in business and financial services can be assured of the integrity of its downloadable/streamable/shareable digital files, which are copyrighted through the unique SVD and robustness features of the algorithm ensuring piracy prevention of their content.

A Novel Approach to Develop a Movie Piracy Prevention System

Movie piracy has a profound impact on the motion picture industry. These losses in revenue will obviously cause serious financial problems for the studios and even contribute to their current downfall. The aim of the project is to develop an anti-piracy system for movie industries using Steganography technique in MATLAB and to design IR based screen to disable mobile recording and alert system

Pay-What-You-Want Pricing in the Digital Product Marketplace: A Feasible Alternative to Piracy Prevention?

In pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing, buyers are allowed to pay any amount they want, often including a price of zero. Standard theory predicts that buyers are driven solely by their own interest and will always choose to pay nothing, making PWYW pricing impractical to use. Nonetheless, PWYW pricing has been consistently occurring in the marketplace. We build and analyze a theoretical model to explain the presence of PWYW pricing in the marketplace and identify the situations under which businesses are better off adopting it over the traditional posted pricing. Because the digital product domain is a particularly good fit for PWYW pricing because of its constant exposure to piracy threats, we focus on digital product firms and examine PWYW pricing as an alternative to their piracy prevention efforts. We show that PWYW pricing becomes a superior pricing strategy when the pirate version is quite similar to the authentic product and it is costly for the firm to improve its product quality. Moreover, if network externalities are present, PWYW pricing can outperform posted pricing only when the network externalities are weak. The results explain why PWYW pricing is rare in the established digital product marketplace, which exhibits strong network externalities.

Crime at Sea: A Global Database of Maritime Pirate Attacks (1993–2020)

This dataset contains information from more than 7,500 maritime pirate attacks that took place between January 1993 and December 2020, as well as country indicator data for the same time period. The pirate attack data was collected from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), tidied, and augmented with geospatial data. The country indicator data was gathered from a variety of sources, notably The World Bank. The data is contained in Comma Separated Value (CSV) files. The reuse potential includes its use by anti-piracy organisations and researchers, as well as commercial businesses, in the understanding and prevention of maritime piracy. This dataset is available through Zenodo and Github.

Comparative analysis on different software piracy prevention techniques

Numerous type of software piracy known today, have several prevention techniques which has been established against them. Although, different software piracy techniques have been established, but the choice of which one should be the best to develop any software is the challenge for most software developers. Consequently, example of the types of piracy in software development can be categorise as follows: cracks and serials, softlifting and hard disk loading, internet piracy and software forging, mischaneling, reverse engineering, and tampering. We have several types of prevention techniques which aimed to resolved piracy in software development, although the methods have been wrecked. In this work a critical analysis has been carryout on different software piracy techniques and a simple model software was designed using the best technique to validate the results of the analysis.

Development of application for software piracy protection from hackers attacks

Recently, programming theft has been a serious issue for programming ventures and extremely huge costs were required to secure their applications. As per Business Software Alliance, the worldwide programming theft rate in 2013 was 43% and the business estimation of unlicensed programming establishments was $62.7 billion, which brought about a large loss in income and a number positions in programming organisations. This paper will exhibit that ‘programming robbery insurance framework’ is mostly used to secure the theft of the framework. Presently, a progressive number of clients download the product without having the consent of the product’s proprietor since the product has the item key which can be located/used by an obscure individual to utilise that product. Our methodology will utilise ‘Macintosh-based confirmation’ and create an item key, which checks or compares the item key against a unique MAC address on each machine.&#x0D; Keywords: Copyright protection, software piracy prevention, identification, authentication, intellectual property protection, diversity, tailored updates.

Mitigation of Geometrical Attack in Digital Image Watermarking using Different Transform Based Functions

The illegal act of digital multimedia data loss the value of information and integrity. The loss of information and integrity born the process of piracy of digital data. The piracy of digital data loss the brand value of documents and products. For the prevention of piracy used the digital watermarking technique. The digital watermarking techniques provide copyright protection and increase the value of brands — Watermarking techniques used in various fields such as image, video, audio, and text. The process of watermarking techniques proceeds in two manners spatial domain and frequency domain. The processing of frequency based watermarking techniques is roughest and fast processing of watermarking. Now in the current scenario, various transform function is used for the embedding process of watermarking techniques. In this approach present the studied of digital watermarking techniques based-on different transform function such as DCT, DWT, FFT, and many more transform function. The transform function based watermarking techniques faced a problem of geometrical attack. The Geometrical attack deforms the watermark and gets information. The prevention of watermarking techniques against the Geometrical attacks is a big challenge for the researcher in the field of digital watermarking.

Obfuscation-Based Watermarking for Mobile Service Application Copyright Protection in the Cloud

The contributions of cloud computing in the prevention of software piracy are inadequate, and there are still rampant piratical mobile service applications in the cloud. This paper navigates mobile service application copyright protection in the cloud and sets a watermarking example to explain it. We use Monden's method to obfuscate the application's source code, remove a part of the semantics, and add it to a recovery module. Because these obfuscation rules come from watermarks, the watermarks are mapped into the rules. The recovery module is a recognizer to prove the watermarks when the original program is recovered. The experimental results indicate that the obfuscated code becomes difficult to reverse engineering and the watermarks are robust.

Maritime Law Enforcement in Japan

Abstract This paper discusses the roles and functions of the Japan Coast Guard and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in maritime law enforcement. It analyzes practices of Japan’s maritime law enforcement in the prevention and punishment of piracy and armed robbery against ships, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, marine pollution, illegal immigration, and drug trafficking. It also examines cases of collaboration among different agencies at the domestic, regional and international levels.

Emerging Technology-Based Design of Primitives for Hardware Security

Hardware security concerns such as intellectual property (IP) piracy and hardware Trojans have triggered research into circuit protection and malicious logic detection from various design perspectives. In this article, emerging technologies are investigated by leveraging their unique properties for applications in the hardware security domain. Security, for the first time, will be treated as one design metric for emerging nano-architecture. Five example circuit structures including camouflaging gates, polymorphic gates, current/voltage-based circuit protectors, and current-based XOR logic are designed to show the high efficiency of silicon nanowire FETs and graphene SymFET in applications such as circuit protection and IP piracy prevention. Simulation results indicate that highly efficient and secure circuit structures can be achieved via the use of non-CMOS devices.

The Effects of Design Protection Legislation on Manufacturer Motivation

This theoretical paper reviews the motivational factors of design protection legislation on knockoff manufacturing in the United States. Since at least the early 20th Century, U.S. apparel designers have requested design protection legislation. In fact, more than 90 attempts have been made to gain legal recognition and protection for original apparel designs through the U.S. legislative system since 1914. In France, however, from the time of Charles Frederick Worth, rules existed concerning what qualified as couture design, and over the following years, design protection in Europe evolved to continually protect creative design. In contrast, the United States continues to have limited design legislation that fails to protect fashion design. Parties in opposition to increased protection argue that legislation will stifle creativity, whereas parties in support counter that protection will encourage designers to create. This paper proposes the necessity of future research based on Tedmond Wong’s Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act (IDPPPA) Game Theory Model to gauge the effect of design protection legislation on apparel manufacturer motivation to knock off designs. While this paper does not test the proposed research, it provides background supported by analysis and synthesis of current facts, data and research literature, and proposes directions of inquiry that may support design protection legislation.

Simulating prevention operations at sea against maritime piracy

Maritime piracy has been a major issue for the international community in the last decade and affected the global economy. As a reaction to this issue, international organizations have deployed naval forces to protect maritime transportation in the affected regions. In this study, we present a simulation-based analysis tool to evaluate the effectiveness of operations to prevent piracy. In our model, we consider three stakeholders’ views (pirates, maritime transporters, and naval forces) and modelled their behaviours separately, using Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) approaches. Our hybrid DES and ABS model is used to simulate hypothetical scenarios on the Gulf of Aden for understanding the cause and effect relationship between naval resource allocation and piracy prevention. Our experimental results showed that, first, helicopters are most valuable in prevention and, second, either patrolling or escorting naval ships must carry a helicopter for effective prevention.

Private Security and the Provision of International Public Goods

We examine the effect of private maritime security on international public safety by analyzing International Maritime Organization vessel security data from 2007-2014. During this time a considerable spike in maritime piracy occurred in East Africa, West Africa and East Asia. We exploit the fact that privately contracted armed security personnel are only legal in East and West Africa, finding that private security reduces the likelihood of a vessel being boarded by approximately 97 percent. Moreover, private security provides the international public good of maritime piracy prevention, as unsecured vessels are approximately 7 percent less likely to be boarded.

Peer contagion, lenient legal-ethical position, and music piracy intentions in emerging adults: Mindfulness as a protective factor

Music piracy is a prevalent, costly, and illegal global phenomenon. The objective of this study was to test whether different facets of mindfulness (attention, present focus, awareness, and acceptance) moderated a mediation process in which digital piracy in friends promotes a lenient legal-ethical position that fosters music piracy intentions in emerging adults. We controlled for personality traits (Big Five), emotion regulation (reappraisal and suppression), time spent listening to music, various Internet-related behaviors (non-academic Internet use, downloading, social networking, smartphone use), and sociodemographics (gender, age, and level of education). Participants were 156 emerging adults (aged between 18 and 25 years) who studied at a Canadian university. Moderated mediation analyses (bootstrapping 50,000 random resamples) suggested that social influence from digital piracy in friends might be a risk factor that has: (i) a direct effect on music piracy intentions; (ii) an indirect effect on music piracy intentions via lenient legal-ethical position; and (iii) an effect on lenient legal-ethical position that can be buffered by attention, a facet of mindfulness that thereby acts as a protective factor. This study draws novel directions for research on the prevention of music piracy, notably the possibility that mindfulness is a protective factor against peer contagion of digital piracy in emerging adulthood.

TUGAS DAN KEWENANGAN POLRESTA DENPASAR DALAM PENEGAKAN HUKUM DAN PENANGGULANGAN PELANGGARAN KARYA CIPTA LAGU DI KOTA DENPASAR

In the era of globalization, on one hand, the law protection of intellectual property right increasingly has a very important meaning, especially in the field both nationally and international trades. On the other hand, the law enforcement of intellectual property rights, both substantive factor (the statutory rules) and cultural factors of community law (the law of consciousness), the role of law enforcers is also important in achieving the effectiveness of a rule in the framework of the statutory copyright law enforcement of songs in Denpasar which is, in fact, hijacking song copyright works seems that it cannot be prevented successfully. So it should be questioned what factors are causing the law enforcers, in this case the resort police investigators of Denpasar less able to prevent infringement of copyright songs in the region of Denpasar. Through the methods of empirical data collected through the questionaries’ and interviews then analyzed and finally a conclusion was drawn which states that the mechanism of Denpasar police resort in tackling piracy in copyrighted songs in Denpasar was conducted pre-emptively, preventively and repressively, but because some factors are not met in an effort to track copyright piracy prevention, the legal protection of copyrighted songs can not be achieved optimally. This is due to two factors, namely internal factors and external factors.

EU Policy on Net Neutrality - Out of Neutral, But Driving in which Direction?

This paper provides a status report on discussions in the EU on net neutrality relating to four issues: regulation of traffic management practices, prevention of piracy, differential charging by operators, and ISP liability for content.