From: qliu011@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Sent: Friday, 9 May 2003 1:59 p.m.
To: cthombor@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Subject: assignment2

titile:Taxonomy of protective techniques for software piracy
Abstract:
Today software piracy is a major concern to electronic commerce since a 
digitized product such as software is vulnerable to redistribution and 
unauthorized use. Diversified practical methods have been applied in order to 
prevent this piracy. To Classify these current using methods against piracy 
will provide a way to help understand possible piracy used by pirate and to 
direct to find more advanced methods carried out to protect digitized product 
in the near future. This paper is based on the taxonomy from Cronin’s[1] paper 
and it provides some examples to justify his classification.

This is a very detailed outline.
Outline:
Introduction
  serious software piracy problems
  emerge many protective technique methods
Taxonomy of technical protective methods against software piracy

Methods from Increasing difficulty of duplicating software
   Give a brief introduction to these methods
   Give examples of concrete technical methods and classify them using these 
taxonomy
   Methods from Increasing likelihood of being caught
Same way to the above
Appreciation and criticism (if exists) on Cronin’s taxonomy or revision (if 
it’s not a complete taxonomy) 

Conclusion