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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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Product Serial Key / Purchase

I am attempting to create an application which, at some point, I would like to sell. I understand that any protection scheme can be bypassed. Could you recommend any ideas on what would be easy for the end user but also be at least slightly…
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iPhone DRM implementation for audio and video

I've done a lot of googling, to no avail,I'm interested in knowing what my native or third party options are for implementing DRM to protect audio (say in a spotify like scenario) and video.(for VOD applications) I've seen mention of widevine but…
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Image asset protection/encryption in an Android app

I have created an Android game where I use TextureAtlas generated from the TexturePacker tool. I have paid an artist to create good quality assets. So I have these nice large png files with alpha, containing all the assets, waiting to be stolen by…
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protecting software to run only on one computer in vb.net

I have developed a small application and now i want to protect it. I want to run it only on my own computer and i have developed it for myself. How can i do that?
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Android app copy protection and data files

In my app, I access my sqlite database at the following hard-coded location in my code: /data/data/ com.mydomain.appname/databases/database.db If I turn ON copy protection in the Market Place, will my app still have access to this location? Or will…
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How does the binary DAT from Maxmind work?

Maxmind offers a binary DAT file format for downloading their GeoIP database. http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz Does anyone know how this has been packaged? Also, is there any kind of copy protection on the…
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.NET copy protection

Is it possible to restrict a .NET executable to a specific machine somehow so that it can only be run on that machine.
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Protecting an Image from downloading by Right-Click

EDIT: In response to many comments I do know that there is no sure fire way to fully protect an image from being downloaded. This method is to prevent the casual user from downloading by simple right click. The best way probably would be simply…
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Best Way to Obfuscate My DL Models and Python?

So I'll be licensing my deep learning model with pre-trained weights for deployment to a customer. The usage of this deep learning model will be done over this customer's servers. For security reasons, I was wondering what I could do to obfuscate my…
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Any free way to disable copying text in .pdf?

I'm providing a free sample page that will be downloaded from my website that is in .pdf format. I want to prevent users from selecting and copying the text content of that document. How can I do this for free?
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android Copy protection Forward-locking - should I not bother?

Should i abandon Copy protection for my android apps? It will be deprecated soon and I recently noticed that some devices will not show these apps due to this copy protection. Generally, with the SDK you can easily extract these apks anyway, so…
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Windows 10 Desktop Bridge: copy protection

Microsoft offers a tool for packaging standard w32 applications so that they can be published in the Microsoft Store [1]. But I could not find any information about copy protection. Are apps distributed through the desktop bridge protected in any…
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How to protect a C++ dynamic library from being used without permission?

We are building a Unity3D plugin. Any game that uses our plugin, when built for some platform also includes our plugin in a form of a dynamic library for that platform. For example, when Android apk is exported from Unity, it will contain our…
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How can I store music on an android phone without allowing the user to be able to download it and use it?

I am working on an app that connects to a media providing site and downloads mp3 files to the user phone. I would like for the user to be unable to copy these files off the phone but only listen to them through my app. I am currently trying to…
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Opinions/Discussion on Copy Protection / Software Licensing via phoning home

I'm developing some software that I'm going to eventually sell. I've been thinking about different copy protection mechanisms, both custom and 3rd party. I know that no copy protection is 100% full-proof, but I need to at least try. So I'm looking…
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