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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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Source Protection when other people changing code

How to protect source code when the code want to change by other people. Example : I have code like this if my code want to change by others like remove include code, i wan't that code automatically…
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How can code (reliably) detect a change in itself?

Supposed I have written a program, and I want to make sure that its code will not be changed (for now, let's assume we are using an interpreted / scripting language, so "just compile it" is not a valid answer). So I would like to detect if someone…
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Check if a license file is made for the current copy-protected assembly

Hi I implemented a copy-protection mechanism with Microsoft's LicenseProvider model and a public/private key pair to prevent copying a program from one PC to another. Very simple. On startup, a license file has to be prent wit hencrypted information…
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Secret data/keys in Python script

I have some code, that works with my DropBox account via DropBox API with account access token in the code like token="sdfdsfsdfdsfsf" dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(token) I plan to distribute my app with that code, but I don't know, how to protect token…
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How does Facebook prevent the downloading of GIF images when using "SafeImage.php"?

Here is an example of a GIF image that is cached on Facebook. This GIF has a "launcher" that requires a user to click the image to proceed. This is a static JPEG created by Facebook's safeimage process. Once I click the Image, I'm not able to…
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how to implement copy protection for installing my .net application

I have gone through the several samples in the web.I understood to protect software by giving Password for each application.I am not asking about abstract concept because I had developed one concept for mine.My question is Where can I implement…
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password protect asp.net application?

I have built an ASP.NET application that needs to be password protected. This application will be installed on multiple offline computers, and we need to make sure that when being installed it requires a password. But even if it requires a password,…
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Encryption/obfuscate of intalled files(.dll, .jar)

I have a .net project which has many modules and also have some .jar files. I also created a .msi setup for installation. This application actually our company's IP(internal Product) which some time get installed on Client Environment for limited…
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simple copy protection strategy

Just thought I'd run this idea past far more experienced heads. I've made a desktop application in java 8. It is a niche app that will be sold via a single website. The market is individuals in a specific work environment who would not be…
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How can I protect hex code against copying?

I want to protect my hex code to just run one electronic circuit. So I want protect my hexadecimal code against copying. How can I do this ?
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slideme slidelock

I'm trying to add SlideLock to my app for a version that I am putting on SlideMe. I am getting an error at mainActivityInstance for some reason and I don't know why. Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks. public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) { …
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Automatic Audio Watermarking of many files

I have many audio files that I want to protect by watermarking them. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? This can be with a separate software or in objective-c or other programming languages.
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How to protect asp.net or c# source file can be view or edit by client using compiler tools?

is there any way to protect the source code of asp.net or c# being view by client when they try to use re-edit it by using compiler tools? i have check on .net reflector but only can use for 14 days for free. please provide some information or…
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How can I protection my FLV videos?

I have some FLV videos was to play on web (play in a flash player, e.g. JWPlayer). How can I protect it? I do not want someone else to download these videos! The videos was high secret! Only allow play on my website.
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Shell script encoder

please'd like to take a simple doubt would like to know how can I encode my .sh script shell script against third-party modifications? I can watch the cpanel their installation script found in the url layer1.cpanel.net/latest at the end of their…
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