Software Protection

Stop Losing Money to Illegal Piracy

Software piracy is rampant: software publishers lose billions each year to illegal software copying, both intentional and unintentional:

Legitimate businesses lose track of how many licenses they have versus usage. They want to be in compliance but it’s too difficult to track.
Businesses intentionally buy fewer licenses than they need and use illegal copies to cut costs
Individuals use cracked copies obtained through the internet
Criminal enterprises crack expensive and high-volume products to sell for their own profit.

CodeMeter from Wibu-Systems provides you the best software protection system available, with three key advantages:

Easily integrate copy protection into your existing applications without changing one line of source code or recompiling — you can add protection in less than 5 minutes.
Scalable protection from software-only to best-in-class hardware protection that supports virtually all hardware interfaces (USB, SD, MicroSD, PCMCIA, etc). You decide when (e.g., different markets, countries, or versions) you need the most robust solution vs. the least cost.
20 year history of full backwards compatibility, so you can implement a solution knowing you won’t need to replace all your dongles at some point in the future.

To find out why companies like GE, Sony, Kodak, Chevron, Qualcomm and more chose Wibu-Systems’s software protection, read on.

Easy Integration

CodeMeter from Wibu-Systems gives you a full range of options for integrating copy protection into your application. The fastest and simplest method is to use AxProtector, which lets you add either software- or hardware-based protection without changing a single line of source code. No recompile—and thus no extensive regression testing—is necessary.

For more complex requirements, The Wibu Universal API (WUPI) lets you protect individual modules, rather than the entire application. Or, you can create a licensing strategy where the user has a limited number of specific events, like pages printed, within their license parameters. To learn more about WUPI, order your free SDK today.

Scalable Protection

With the CodeMeter System, you can choose to deliver your software protected with a CodeMeter stick (hardware “dongle”) or protected with a machine-bound license activation file (CodeMeterACT) or both! Of course you achieve the highest security with the hardware based solution. But sometimes, it is impossible for your customer to allow any type of USB device inside their firewall, in this case you can use the CodeMeterACT software based solution.

20 Years of Compatibility

One of the fundamental design principles of Wibu-Systems is 100 per cent backwards compatibility. Software protected in 1989 would work today without any changes using the CodeMeter CodeMeter stick (USB Smart Card dongle).

No matter what hardware or software protection technology comes in the future, you can be sure that Wibu-Systems will protect your investment in software protection.

Why Choose CodeMeter?

If you choose the CodeMeter System, you don’t get just a dongle, but a complete service package as well.
CodeMeter not only keeps track of your interests as a software vendor. But the CodeMeter System gives your customer a reason to “love” his dongle.
You have multiple options when programming and storing your license information in a CodeMeter stick.
Multiple vendors can share a single CodeMeter stick, reducing individual costs and simplying life for their users.
No drivers needed, additional flash memory, and more.

WibuKey: The Classic Alternative

WibuKey uses the same security principle as CodeMeter. While CodeMeter is offering more license options on the hardware side, WibuKey is more adaptable to non–standard operating systems.