
But the software industry and governments worldwide recognize that technology is not the sole answer to reducing piracy and counterfeiting. Technological solutions to these challenges focus on making software authenticity easier to verify, making software more difficult to counterfeit, and making software distribution processes harder to subvert. Moreover, software counterfeiting provides violators with the opportunity to modify and augment the duplicated software code in undesirable ways, including insertion of malicious logic, backdoors, and exploitable vulnerabilities. Software counterfeiting and piracy are problems of global proportions that violate the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of software developers and vendors, and thus threaten their market viability.


