Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH

Neuer Hoeltigbaum 22-32
22143 Hamburg

URI: http://www.elicenser.net/

eLicenser

eLicenser

The eLicenser anti-piracy solution protects software applications and digital content against piracy and illegal copying — over the complete product life cycle. The eLicenser technology fully integrates hardware-based copy and intellectual-property protection with secure digital rights and license management. This is the only anti-piracy solution today that is able to successfully protect consumer software products against cracking techniques used by international hacker groups.

DRM and Online License Distribution
eLicenser comes with advanced DRM and license distribution services. A central license server is used to authenticate license transactions.

USB-eLicenser

USB-eLicenser is the hardware-based protection module which includes the eLicenser anti-piracy technology, providing the highest security level possible. Using USB-eLicenser, software vendors ensure a long-term protection of their valuable software products.

Proven Security
The anti-piracy technology is deployed on hundreds of thousands of PCs. All USB-eLicenser protected software products running on the Windows platform have not been cracked since autumn 2005. On the Mac OS X platform, eLicenser protected software has never been cracked since the launch of the MCFACT technology in the year 2000.

Targeted Customers
eLicenser is designed for software, games and digital content vendors who have an interest in protecting their intellectual property.

Application Areas
eLicenser provides one of the most technically advanced anti-piracy technologies for the protection of software and digital content against illegal copying and underground distribution — over the complete product life cycle. The following sections describe key application areas of the technology.

Software Copy Protection
The protected software is linked securely to a USB-eLicenser module. This means that running the software is only granted when a suitable product license is available on the USB-eLicenser module.

The eLicenser technology supports the protection of:

  • Applications, games, tools, clients, servers, program libraries, etc.
  • Special application features, such as editors, proprietary processing algorithms, data visualization features, etc.
  • Plug-ins, such as effects, graphic filters, format converters, etc.


Digital Content Protection
The digital content might be distributed on recordable media and as a download or stream via the internet. To use the content, the end-users require a USB-eLicenser module with an appropriate product license.

The eLicenser technology supports the protection of:

  • Audio and video data that are processed by sequencers, video editors, plug-ins, media players, etc.
  • Application specific data, like user settings, preferences, project files, etc.
  • Database records, such as user data, accounting data, multimedia data, etc.

Protection of High-End Products
USB-eLicenser is a security device that ensures a long-term protection of expensive premium software products. The MCFACT technology protects the software’s program code and makes it resistant against debugging, reverse-engineering, analysis, illegal re-use and tampering.