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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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How to protect the mp3 file from read or copy on Android?

I have mp3 files in root folder of my app, but some users have root rights and they can play or copy. I want to protect my files, use them just in my app. How can I do this? Archiving is not a option.
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How to protect Access database and limit to certain computers

Good morning, I'm doing a project, the customer prefers to use Access 2013 as the all in one package - front end, database etc. In short the customer will give their users a blank copy of the database, which is taken on site and used to generate…
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How to install APK Expansion Files without hosting on Developer Console?

I have an requirement in such a way that I have to show few video tutorials which are large in size and should be not copied by the users. The videos should be shown strictly inside the Application only. So i would go with an option of having…
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How do you make text or other elements copy something other than that?

I've seen several sites that when you copy and paste text from their website, it turns out something like this: - From And I am wondering how to do that. I have tried using the alt parameter and others. Thanks in…
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Best practice to prevent software copy

I'm developping an application and I'm looking for some cool informations about protecting it against copy ! Do you guys know some book/articles/any informations about it ? Thanks in advance for your advices !
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Copy protecting a single page in PDF document using C#?

Is it possible to restrict/disable copy/cut/print option (Copy Protect) for a single page in PDF document using C#? I know it is very much possible to copy protect the whole PDF document using third party library like PDFSharp, PDFClown etc. But all…
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If your code is stolen, this will redirect them back to your site

After having scoured the internet, I'm finding that there's no true way to protect your source code unless you're accessing content stored on the server. Even with an obfuscator to make your code unreadable, anyone can still copy/paste it and use…
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Product key Registration - Visual Basic

I am trying to make a product key registrar for my program. I want the product keys in a database or a dictionary type thing where I can make new keys everyday without putting them into the program, and redistrubate them everytime. I'm not sure…
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Being a cracker nightmare!

I am trying to make a code hard to crack using Objective-C on a Mac. One of the things I have to do is to check to see if the application was cracked. I am new to Objective-C and Xcode and whatever way I imagine to test my application I always end…
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create a run-only-once java application

I have to create a jar with a java application that fulfills the following features: There are xml data packed in the jar which are read the first time the application is started. with every consecutive start of the application the data are loaded…
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How does it appear that MDN can detect a request from an iframe on the Server Side and send no content?

Please Note: This question is not related directly to Server-side detection that a page is shown inside an IFrame, as I'm showing you an instance where it would appear that the guys at MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) are already detecting that…
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Playing copy-protected video content in Java (e.g. via HDCP)

Is it possible to play a video stream from Java in such a way that it cannot be captured during playback (preferably not even single screenshots)? Would HDCP allow for such a restriction? If so, is HDCP somehow accessible via Java?
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hide source code after script finishes loading

This question is different because I don't want to prevent the user from viewing source. I want to hide a portion of the source code programmatically. "Duplicate" questions do not address this and some of the answers on this question begin to…
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how to set password to micro SD card programmatically?

is there any way to write protect micro sd card with password through programming (Java/C)? primarily I wanted to set a password to micro sd card and the sd card should have access only if we provide the password. I come to know that nokia mobile…
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Show your php code but protect it from being copied

I have a php project that i want to sell. The buyer wants his programmer to see the quality of the code first, before it makes the purchase. I don't want him to be able to copy the code so i have to protect it. How would you protect your code from…
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