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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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Secure applications on Windows?

The Sony Playstation 3's in-built DRM/Copy Protections makes it a very attractive platform for developers (less piracy) same perhaps with iPhone. I believe this is achieved by virtualising the OS, sandboxing the applications. Can we have that…
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how to prevent hack license

I'm developing an app, and I have integrated the license verification library to control my app. But I've noticed that rooted phones can crack the license of the app with the app Lucky Patcher. Is there any way to protect apps from this? Thank you
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Copy prevention of Excel file

There is excel file with complex mathematical model. How to prevent file coping from client machine to other machines? Client have to run Excel and type coefficients into equations, then Excel computes result. I think about VB extension or macros…
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How to have databse protection for offline dictionary app?

I'm a veteran web developer but a total newbie in apps development. I would like to build my first hybrid app which would use a custom dictionary of my own (currently stored in a MySQL db), but since I want my app to be usable offline, I need to…
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How to protect a Web Application

I've a web application( ASP.NET WebForms). Now I need to give this application to my client for offline(Installed on Local Server and accessed via LAN) installation. I want to protect this application from being copied. All I can think of now is: I…
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How to Get Exact Location and Angles of Sectors on CD or DVD (Data Position Measurement)?

I'm developing a copy protection. It must be able to identify compact disks using some features like sector angles or exact physical location of sectors (Data Position Measurement). So the question is which features I can use to do this and how I…
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How to protect htdocs files

does anyone know how to make my htdocs folder files uneditable but can be copy because i want to make my web application secure so that people cant edit the contents inside my files. Does anyone know how to do this? can be copy but uneditable.
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Changing parameters in compiled program - Java

I made a program, and for "protection" set some parameters. First parameter is date to wich program can work (something Trial but with fixed date), and the second one is HDD serial number (had some problems with other hardware serials) on which…
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Why jQuery Plugins code is shown in source code

This is just a general question about jQuery... Suppose someone made a jQuery plugin and sells it in CodeCanyon...However he used that plugin in his website and when you go to inspect element(view source) there is the code of the plugin... Someone…
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Generate file on USB drive that can not be deleted or copied in VB.NET

I need to generate a file on a USB drive. This file should not be deletable or copy-able and must be generated using VB.net Basically i have a lot of usb drive, on each drive there will be a file with a specific name and i will use this file to…
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How can I use hardware solutions to create "unbreakable" encryption or copy protection?

Two types of problems I want to talk about: Say you wrote a program you want to encrypt for copyright purposes (eg: denying unlicensed user from reading a certain file, or disabling certain features of the program), but most software-based…
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Protect image from copy with itext

We have to disable "Copy Image"-Function from a part of pdf file. Even not the hole File-protection. Just preventing direct copy. Is it possible? We use iText to generate pdf.
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Hiding href path on hover and source code

I am trying to prevent directory traversal attack on my jsp. As well as sanitising the URL parameters, I want to not expose the directory structure altogether. Is there a way for me to hide/alter the path that the user sees and also in the source…
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Prevent EXE being copied to another PC - keep some info inside EXE file (e.g. some flag)

I want to prevent executable being copied to another PC and thus i need to somehow save information inside my EXE file about that it was already used somewhere else on another PC. Can i embed small piece of information like user's hard drive number…
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Copy Protection and Trial Creation for OSX Applications - Suggestions Please?

Silicon Realms (Digital River - Armadillo) used to have a Mac application protection/trial builder. They discontinued it this year most likely due to Mac App store not allowing 3rd party protection mechanisms or trials. Does anybody know of…
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