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ImageBase is committed to the protection of intellectual property rights and the reduction of software piracy. Everyone in the economic chain—not just the software manufacturer—is hurt by piracy, including the reseller, the support provider, and you, the end user. Authentic ImageBase software assures you of high-quality, virus-free software. Pirated software does not.Photophone contains software-based product activation technology, which means you need to activate your copy of Photophone in order to use it.ImageBase Product Activation is an anti-piracy technology designed to verify that software products have been legitimately licensed. This aims to reduce a form of piracy known as casual copying. Activation also helps protect against hard drive cloning. Activation is quick, simple, and unobtrusive, and it protects your privacy.Product Activation works by verifying that a software program's product ID has not been used on more personal computers than intended by the software's license. You must use the product id in order to install the software and then it is transformed into an return code. Your Photophone software will have a 30 day trial period, in which the user has 30 days to register / activate their copy of Photophone. To activate the full version of PhotoPhone, the user must ring ImageBase, quote their product ID, and then an ImageBase representative will give the user a return code. Once the user has received the return code and inputted it into Photophone, their copy of the software will be fully activatated.If you overhaul your computer by replacing a substantial number of hardware components, it may appear to be a different PC. You may have to reactivate Photophone. If this should occur, download the Product Registration Form and either fax or e-mail it to ImageBase Technology.There are many forms of piracy, including counterfeiting, hard disk loading, and Internet pirating. The goal of Product Activation is to reduce a form of piracy known as "casual copying" or "softlifting." Casual copying is a form of piracy characterized by the sharing of software between people in a way that infringes on the software's end user license agreement (EULA). An example of casual copying is if someone were to obtain a copy of Photophone and load it on his or her PC, then share it with a second person who loaded it on his or her PC, and so on. This form of piracy has been estimated by some industry trade groups to account for a staggering 50 percent of the economic losses due to piracy. |
