Patent ID: 7503072

Claim:
A detection system for use with the Internet for generating information related to pirating of a software product, comprising: a server in communication with said Internet, a database associated with said server; said software product being associated with a product id that identifies said software product; a software program stored in a plurality of customer computers utilizing said software product, said software program generating a hardware id for each of said customer computers so as to uniquely identify each of said plurality of customer computers, said software program automatically transferring said product id and said hardware id over said Internet to said server, said server receiving and storing in said database said product id and said hardware id for each of said plurality of customer computers, said software program being installed on said plurality of customer computers along with other program modules, including an operating system or network communication; and an activation unit utilized by said server for determining if said product id is associated with more than one of said plurality of customer computers.