Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I INTRODUCTION -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Innovation in an Historical Perspective: Tales of Technology and Evolution -- Part II COUNTRY STUDIES -- 3 The United States -- 4 Japan -- 5 Germany -- 6 France -- 7...

Although software piracy is often described as a threat to innovation, only a minority of publishers has chosen to adopt hardware keys, the most secure technology protecting intellectual property in software. A survey of German software publishers reveals that they demand different levels of...