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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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What are some good ways of keeping content from being copied to other sites

I understand that no matter what I do, someone will be able to copy it. However I can still make them work hard for it. What are some good ways of making data not easily copied using php compatible coding. --- Added ---- The data is a listing of…
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How to prevent users from copying shared documents in Google Docs / Google Drive

I am using Google Drive to share documents only with certain users. Users can see them, add comments and even edit them in some cases. But what if I don't want them to make copies. Is that possible?
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Exponentially delay repeat requests to the same file in php

I'm looking to prevent robots crawling our site and downloading the thousands of images hosted there. I read this lately https://github.com/remy/password-policy about best practices for password policy. One of the ideas was to delay repeat requests…
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how to run python project after remove .py file?

i want to remove my source code .py files to avoid rivals to see my code. so i use python -c "import compileall; compileall.compile_dir('D:/acc')" to compile all py files to pyc,next step is to remove py files,and run the project only use pyc, how…
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Can we reveal the source code of a software from its setup file?

I found that we can read the software source code of a JAR file by using de-compiling software. I downloaded such a software and read lot of such codes. My questions are... How can we prevent decompiling our class files which is inside the JAR? Can…
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Implementing Copy Protection in a Desktop Mac App

I'm looking for an easy to use serial-number registration system for a small Mac App I've created. Frankly, I'm not overly concerned about pirates, but I do want a way to have a screen show up with 'Register/buy' options, and have a serial number…
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Google Earth plug-in 3D model copyright protection

I work on projects that animate a 3D model in the Google Earth plug-in; for example: http://www.hazelhurst.net/Cook I want to use a 3D model supplied by TurboSquid, but their End-User License Agreement puts on the purchaser a requirement to…
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Protect my java application from being copied (only for one pc)

How do I stop someone from copying the application i am making in java in an other pc ? i want to sell it only for one pc I am not selling it on the internet , is there any way to do that by the disk SN or using USB Flash disk SN of the client as a…
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Android: from Copy Protection to Application Licensing

MY app on Android has a new major module added to it which changes the app size from ~10Mb to ~100Mb. The plan is to implement "Application Licensing" and allow app to a) be installed on SD card, b) download heavy bits (video) from inside the app…
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Protect Java source using JNI

I just had an idea, is that possible to protect my java sources (packed into a jar file) which are loaded with a custom class loader, using a JNI code or something? As the JNI code cannot be decompiled, it could be great to be able to protect the…
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trying to protect PDF (iText) trying to disable users to do copy on pdf's content

Below is my code. My objective is to create a PDFs where endusers can do whatever they want EXCEPT copying the text (select the text and COPY to a notepad). Can anyone explain what code should come in line 18? I allow printing but not ALLOW_COPY) I…
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How to stop a SWF file from being cached locally?

I don't want my swf flash file to be cached is there a way I can execute a code from my swf file to perform a cache clean? E.g I am posting my swf file on: www.newgrounds.com- I want a code in actionscript 2.0 to be deployed from my swf file when it…
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How to implement copy protection in website product?

My company has a website product (ASP.NET) which is sold to customers. It means we don't host the website. They install it on their server and run it in the intranet. I need to implement some sort of copy protection mechanism so that not everyone…
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PHP/Web Script Protection

I want to write a script in PHP and javascript and somehow protect my source code so that I can sell my script. I am looking for ideas how to protect my script. If I sell it to someone, how can I stop that person from redistributing it as their…
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Protect database content from being 'sniffed' out (Ajax)

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