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Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy obstruction, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any effort designed to prevent the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media, usually for copyright reasons.

Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy obstruction, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any effort designed to prevent the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media, usually for copyright reasons.

Various methods have been devised to prevent reproduction so that companies will gain benefit from each users who obtain a copy of their product.

Unauthorized copying and distribution accounted for $2.4 billion in United States in 1990s, and is assumed to be causing impact on revenues in music or game industry, leading to proposal of anti-piracy laws such as PIPA.

Some methods of copy protection have also led to criticisms because it caused inconvenience for honest users or secretly installed additional software to watch activity on user's computer to detect copying.

Effective copy protection as well as protecting user rights is still an ongoing problem with media publication.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection

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Windward Document Generation - PDF Copy Protected

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Java JNI LoadLibrary protected dll

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My setup.exe is being blocked by anti virus only if downloaded frm my website

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How can you protect/encrypt your Java classes?

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Impossible to protect copyrighted file in zip file?

Some years ago I bought a 3D model at turbosquid and included it in my 3D scenario. Then I released the 3D scenario as a runnable jar file (Java). The 3D model is likely copyrighted and the 3D artist could (but most likely won't) claim copyright.…
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How to provide copy-protection for Android free apps

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Detect a device has be restored

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Application copy protection using encrypted files

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GIT - Maintaining obfuscated repositories for working with untrusted 3rd party developers?

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Web content screen capture copy-protection

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How Do I Protect Decryption Password And Salt in APK

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iOS efficient executable decryption

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Jar Store - prevent from copying

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Will debug version of static lib disclose source code info?

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