Protecting software licenses with Activation codes, limiting users

Hi all.
I'm trying to find a solution for preventing clients that buy an application so install it above the limit in contract that it was bought original.
Some clients buy our Oracle Application and for reasons that we cannot control they install more copies and have more users using it then what is in the contract.
I'm looking for solutions that can limit either the number of clients connected on that application at any given time, or can limit how many terminals will be connected on it at any given time.
Can I limit it by the number of users or by the number of terminals or both?
How are others taking control on not so nice clients that buy a 10 users version but end up using for 20 or 30 users without paying the upgrade for the application?
Thank you

The only comment I would make to Adobe on this matter is as follows:
Whatever licensing scheme you come up with, keep it simple so it actually works.
Fully disclose the details of your protection schemes to the customer before purchase.
Sure, we're small fish, but Adobe lost all interest that we may have had in using PDFs for web data-input when we very quickly demonstrated to ourselves (using the absolutely-most-current versions of Acrobat and Reader) that the technology was completely un-reliable when Reader was used, and it was unreliable because of errors in the license-control routines.  Furthermore, these were issues that we had been given no cause to expect.
The "rights" that Adobe seemed to be trying to enforce here also make no business sense:  either you have sold me the "right" to create fillable PDF forms for web-form use, within the "ordinary" context of Acrobat/Reader, for as many such form-files as I may care to make, or you have not sold me anything at all.  Sure, we all understand the Gillette Principle ("give 'em the handle, sell 'em the blades"), but at the end of the day the customer has to come away with a clean-shaven face.  That is what the customer is paying money to get, and if your efforts to obtain revenue defeat its "fitness to a particular purpose," then you are doing something very wrong.

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