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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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HTML5 copy protection

I am building an online game, similar to a flash online game, but using HTML only. (HTML5) I would like to prevent people from copying it and putting the game on their site. With flash, I used to do this by adding the URL check to make sure it was…
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How to call a internet Python script from another local Python script

I have a Python script that does some complicated statistical calculations on data and want to sell it. I thought about compiling it, but I have read that Python compiled with py2exe can be easily decompiled. So I tried another aproach, namely…
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how to disable a product on invalid authentication?

I'm a bit stumped at this. I have a pretty unique hashing algorithm, etc. for key/license creation; i'm not worried about that part. what i do need ideas on is how to disable a product on invalid...er, validation. it's on a linux platform and uses…
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Where does software protection store its data?

I am in the process of exploring the software protection schemes for my company. Sure enough, there are so many alternatives and almost all of them give a facility to limit: Number of usage (executions) Number of days Now if I think about it,…
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Are there any Single Board Computers (SBCs) with Android and copy protection for the installed software?

I have an Android app, which can run on a Single Board Computer (SBC) in a "dedicated device" mode. Is there a way to prevent someone from copying it? Any specific board examples are welcome. P.S. Raspberry Pi and Tinker Board, probably won't work…
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Preventing web images from being taken

I've been looking around to see if there exists a good way to prevent viewers from using their right click options to download images that I upload to my website. I know that people can look at the image url in the page source, and was wondering if…
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Content protection for Azure blobs

I'm not sure if this is a good question, but I know Azure Media Services has content protection for video and audio, and I know Azure Rights Management exists for documents and email, and seems to use a special client to view protected documents. If…
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How to embed and protect some "text" files in my application

My c++ application use some "text files", theses files are very important and I need to protect their content to be viewed/decrypted/extracted/dissassembled... Also, if possible I would like to embed them in the DLL/EXE Can you tell me if there is a…
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Check the license in the constructor

I need to protect a C++ library that I am writing. The library has a single entry point via class called foo. What I did is: //.hpp class foo{ public: foo(); .... } //.cpp foo::foo(){ if(check_for_lic()==result::failed){ throw…
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How can I hide Perl code?

I've written some Perl programs and am planning on distributing them. They're part of a large binary distribution (mostly compiled C/C++). If possible, I'd prefer to give up as little as possible (I'm responsible for delivering working software, not…
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How to implement copy protection with OpenGL render

I want to implement copy protection for opengl render, here are some idea, none of them are convinced. Would you please give me some suggestions for how to do this? ChangeDisplaySettingsEx API allows to change the display device configuration. It…
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protect images on webpage from being copied/saved?

i'm running a niche website for a very conservative group and one request they have is that we need to make it as difficult as possible for users to save images of other users. i know there is no way to satisfy this requirement 100% but at least i…
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How can I protect my source code when deploying on different computers

I have a program I just finish writing in CFML (.cfm files) for my client, but I don't want my client to see the source code. I will install the software on his computer. I tried using the compile.bat but when I install it on the other computer, it…
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Android App Injection

Is it possible to inject an app into another after installation process? Consider the following example: Device D is rooted and Android version is >= 5, means it's using ART. App A gets installed via "adb install App_A.apk". At first startup dex2oat…
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How can I implement Samsung Zirconia license check with Android Studio?

I have followed Samsung Zirconia instructions on implementing the license checker for my app. However, when running the app, it crashed and I receive the following log message. 10-09 21:13:56.754 1107-1127/? E/AndroidRuntime:…
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