Scott Baeder, the EDA Consortium's Anti-Piracy Committee Chair, recently
delivered an update on the EDA industry's approach to piracy over the
years, how the piracy scene works and current activities by the
committee.
The webcast, presented with V.i. Labs,
also discussed how EDA software vendors can recover revenue from the
businesses that are using their software without paying for it....
Over the past three years, the Anti-Piracy Committee has been working
with anti-piracy vendors and learning more about the issues to help
answer questions about the most effective anti-piracy strategy for the
industry. Baeder noted, "We still don't have a good, solid answer."
Victor DeMarines V.i. Lab's
VP of Products presented his company's research on the increasing
growth of piracy group releases of cracked software from the top seven
EDA vendors over the last 10 years.
The EDAC committee is looking at the piracy problem from many different
angles, including producers (the crackers), distribution channels and
end users. While the committee is looking at various methods to
"harden" the code and improve tamper resistance, Baeder explained that
some solutions are difficult to implement and that prevention seems to
be a never ending "Cat and Mouse" game with the crackers.
We are excited for our live webinar on April 16 with attorney 
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