Piracy is a phenomenon that has begun to grow exponentially these recent years. To fight this problem, various ways to protect software have appeared, from the basic serial key to the hardware based protection. These are all some ways to solve the problem, but pirates always go farther and farther to overpass these protection systems. Let’s be honest, there is no software protection system that is 100% reliable, it just makes the task harder for hackers and they need more time to find a way to crack it.

That’s why software protection system makers have to improve constantly their system to fit the actual market security requirements. The hardware based protection still remains one the most secure ways to protect your software, but this solution is of course more expensive than other software based protection.

Hardware protection dongles are reliable but more expensive than a simple serial key system. Software piracy harms software developer but also the final users. Indeed, the price of these hardware-based protection dongles is added to the final price of the software, which tends to make this software even more expensive. The user that buys the software legally pays even more money, just because of the piracy of users not willing to buy the software.

There is actually no way to eradicate completely software piracy, it is and will always exist. However, we can help to reduce it using efficient systems. Pirates will always find a way to hack your software protection. That’s why software protection makers have to keep on searching for new ways, even more secure to protect software. In this way, when the hacker would finally find the way to unlock a software protection, a new system of protection will already be released and he will have to try to hack it again. That’s how it works.