The document discusses software piracy rates and techniques for combating piracy like encryption and security dongles. It proposes a new Universal Piracy Monitoring System (UPMS) that would track software use even after cracking through a client-side program (TROPS), ISPs, and a central server. TROPS would collect identifying information and send it to the UPMS server for verification against valid licenses. The system aims to be hack-proof through techniques like hashed data and spoofing prevention. It could help reduce piracy if adopted by software vendors and ISPs.