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Digital Rights Management (DRM):
DRM can be applied to your software product to permit licensing for fair use. Without DRM, your product is often distributed freely to other friends, family, classmates and strangers to use without paying you for a license.

Many software writers embed their own DRM within the product - which limits you from other business models (i.e. subscriptions, installment payments, try before you buy, OEM, and volume licensing).

DRM can be applied to your software after you write it with "wrapper" technologies which surround your EXE with a licensing layer.

One such software of this type is Armadillo (SoftwarePassport). Others are EXECryptor and Oreans. These technologies permit you to apply a "wrapper" around your software to enable other business models and monetize your software by users.

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