摘要：The rapid development of computer network especially the internet has enabled new software capabilities and wide market interest. The reality that this technology will virtually place all computer users on the internet is a major motivating factor in this work. This paper proposes a software piracy prevention technique in which client/user purchases a software product, but must connect to the remote server of the software developer before installation. The user provides an activation code that activates mobile agent. The validity of the activation is checked, the software user identity information is compared with store information in the database of the developer to ascertain authenticity and prevent piracy. A mathematical model is adopted for measuring the effectiveness of mobile agent migration in terms of network load which is expected to be at minimal
关键词：Software Piracy Prevention; Remote server of the software developer; software users’ identity information; Mobile agent
