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Welcome to the July issue of V.i. Labs News & Views. Summer slowdown? Not a chance - read on for crack statistics on EDA, PLM and CAD software, an upcoming live webinar with SIIA, our work with leading anti-malware researcher Riverside Research Institute, and news about our patent. |
| V.i. Labs' Original Research:
EDA, PLM and CAD Crack Stats |
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This month we dig deeper into the stats and present the findings from our own recent research:
Methodology:
We examined the software piracy release activity for leading EDA and PLM/CAD vendors (including Agilent, ANSYS, Autodesk, Cadence Design, Dassault, The MathWorks, Mentor Graphics, National Instruments, PTC, Solidworks and UGS/Siemens). The majority of these vendors had 2007 revenue exceeding $500M.
- The crack releases were across 17 different companies or product lines between 2005-2008
- We used several crack release search engines and authenticated it using data from our partner, Internet Crimes Group
Findings:
In this timeframe, there were 984 crack releases, of which 21% were EDA applications and 79% were PLM/CAD. The piechart below shows the relative contributions of the crack groups.

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