Abstract
LICENSING AND ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE REUSE
Navninderjit Singh*
ABSTRACT
Cracking some Adobe products is as simple as replacing a .dll file in the respective app?s folder. These software range from hundreds of dollars in price to thousands of dollars in price. Thus, making sure users have a legitimate copy and are not using pirated software is of utmost importance to many distributed software companies. There is a lot of information concerning this topic on the Internet, since it is related to piracy, most of the technical information is kept behind closed doors. This is where much of our research will have to take place. We plan to solve this problem by inspecting the dll (dynamic link library) files that regulate the product?s license. After analyzing the files, we will try and find a way to see if a product?s legitimacy can be verified by testing scenarios such as if the dll has been modified in any way.
[Full Text Article] [Download Certificate]