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  1. Why Encrypt?

    Peter on May 28th, 2008

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    Agriya has taken the decision to start pro-actively licensing it’s software. When Agriya first began selling software 13 months ago, we encrypted all the files to prevent piracy. Our customers were understandably up in arms about this and the complaints kept flowing in.

    In order to appease our client base, we removed the encryption and licensing, a decision we have now come to regret. Check out the numbers below and see why we have become so disturbed:

    Agriya Software Piracy Stats

    Number of sites illegally using our software: 379

    Number of sites giving our software away for free: 86

    Number of people trying to sell our software: 33

    Number of DMCA notices served to date: 104

    Number of files removed from file sharing sites: 819!

    Piracy of Agriya’s software has reached a stage where we must take back control of our software and licensing, and if it means encrypting a few key files, then we are prepared to lose a tiny fraction of business to ensure our software is not pirated any more.

    We currently employ two people full time to locate, track and remove people and websites who are sharing our software.

    Agriya feels that it has no other decision than to start licensing our software pro-actively in order to combat software piracy. We tried it with open source access, and it was abused.

    The first software to be licensed is Rayzz. In total there is one file encrypted that controls the script. The other files that are encrypted are for the licensing purposes. The file that has been encrypted should in no way hinder your prospects of customizing the code, adding new modules or customizing the template – the encryption is completely low impact.

    There is also a call home feature built in to the software licensing. This basically calls back to Agriya’s server and finds out if it’s alright to run the script. Again, this is low impact and you won’t even notice the process going on as it’s designed to call home once every 15 days and you are allowed three attempts incase our server is down.

    Over the coming weeks the rest of our software will be rolled out with the licensing and low impact encryption.

    I sincerly hope you can appreciate why we have had to take these steps, and I’m really sorry if this causes any inconvenience. Of course, on a case by case basis we can review the encryption – for example if you are doing some heavy modification through Agriya.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 2:31 pm and is filed under Agriya News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  1. Open Source alternative for Google Analytics

    isaivani on May 8th, 2008

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    Most webmasters now recognize that Analytics is one of the best free web stats programs available. However, with this data, you are telling Google everything they need to know about your website, including time spent on the site, page views, bounce rate…everything.

    There has long been a wonder about whether Google tracks users who click on their organic search results. Do they track click through rates for different sites? Do they log when a user hits a backbutton? Do they use some area 51 hidden frame display technology to monitor the facial reaction of the user as they open up the site?

    Well, they may do, but do they really need to do it when you are giving them all the information they need to assess your site via Google Analytics?

    If this disturbs you that Google knows too much about your site then it may be time to check out Piwik.

    Piwik has worked on this Google analytics proprietary technology and has come up with an open source alternative for that.

    This Piwik open source product is developer friendly with access to the source files as well and claiming the advantages of it’s open source product as

    • Open API
    • Plug in architecture
    • Data abstraction layer
    • Customizable dashboard

    For more details Check: Piwik: Open Source Google Analytics Alternative.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 7:38 am and is filed under SEO Game. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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