Digital Rights Management: Software Piracy Is
Killing The Industry
Author: Rod Beckwith

What would you say if you were told that you were losing
thousands upon thousands of dollars on a piece of software that
you have created and are trying to make a profit off of? Well,
it is the truth. Software piracy is a problem that has brought
the software industry to a near standstill, costing the industry
billions of dollars each and every year in lost revenue, not to
mention thousands upon thousands of software and IT jobs in the
United States.

Something must be done about the issue of software piracy but
what? Copyright infringement is a faceless crime; the victim is
often the hard working programmer but the assailant could be
anybody; you could look them in the face and not know who they
are. For this reason, it is important to protect your digital
media as much as you possibly can because of all intellectual
property is it at the most risk of infringement by others, and
those who can take advantage of a weak security process or a
hole in programming certainly will.

The world is full of those who want to profit from something
that they had no part in. It has been going on since the
beginning of time and the only difference now is that technology
has allowed people to take advantage of the work of others like
never before, as well as giving them an even more efficient
means of distributing and even profiting from the work of
others. It seems you don't have to have a software programming
degree or experience to make money selling computer programs or
similar digital media; all you have to do is be the proud owner
of a CD or DVD burner and maybe even a few good hacking skills.

Good digital rights management techniques are necessary now
more than ever before. Unfortunately it is another investment in
its own but there are services out there that are making good
digital rights management services more and more affordable,
just to offset the enormous killing that software piracy is
causing to the industry.

If you have created a software program, take the necessary
steps to prevent it form being copied or utilized by others to
make a profit. A computer program or video game, picture or
e-book is just as important as a painting or novel and it is
just as wrong to sell and distribute one as the other. Without
having appropriate digital rights management procedures in place
you are leaving yourself open to an unnamed amount of money in
profits. Do the right thing and protect your digital property
somehow or another.

Think of all of the digital media that flows through the
internet, such as e-books, copyrighted images, articles,
software, and other things. The internet is not as secure as it
could and probably should be, and if you are one of those people
who are using the computer and Internet to your advantage to
gain a skill and gain something monetary from it, you are more
at risk than ever before.

Just why is that, you ask? It is rather simple. As technology
advances and gives you the tools and capabilities necessary to
create innovative products it also gives other people out there
license to take it and that can fast defeat the purpose of
creating software to sell for profit in the first place.

If you were creating something for fair use and share with
other people, digital rights management would not be important
but in the case that you are creating something to make
available to customers for a price, digital rights management is
an important thing to take into consideration. For every person
that takes your software or product and comes by it illegally or
immorally, they are bound to share it with at least one person.
That not only takes out of your pocket what you are due by their
having possession of your product but it also doubles that due
to their likelihood to share it with another person.

Luckily, there are services out there for people who do not
have their own method of digital rights management in place.
Service like Lock It Now! And Software Defender provides
photographers, e-book creators and software entrepreneurs the
opportunity to protect their product with an automated
registration verification system, protecting you against repeat
'refunders' (those who order your product just to copy it and
request a refund of their money, thereby having obtained your
product for free).

Copyright infringement and software piracy are as real as any
computer program, e-book or digital image out there so it is
important to make sure that you take the necessary steps to
protect your intellectual property from people who care not to
pay for the things in life that they want.


About The Author: Rod Beckwith is a successful software and
services publisher that has created "Lock It Now!," which
protects digital products from piracy, refunds and chargebacks.
For more info click on the link. http://www.Lockitnow.com