This chapter covers the brief introduction on Copylock Software Protection System and CopyLock Dongle.
Developing a software application involves a major investment of time, money and efforts. Software piracy denies you the revenue you deserve – and harms your paying customers, who ultimately bear the cost of illegal use of your products. Piracy limits your ability to be competitive, leading into higher-priced, less advanced products for your customers. Now more than ever…. you need to protect your software!
Copylock is a software anti-piracy product–helps the software developers in increasing their revenue by securing their products against unauthorized usage & distribution.
The system provides the protection mechanism to application that always ensures for the presence of valid electronic lock connected to a PC.
The CopyLock Dongle hardware lock is an electronic device that can be designed to work on any port of the computer. The serial, parallel, keyboard and lately USB port based locks are now available in the market. The hardware lock is most commonly known as Dongle.