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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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SVN - How to keep core source code confidential and give freelancers access to modules only

I'm developing a modular propietary PHP application. As a project leader and owner, I want to keep the core engine confidential. The freelancers will work on modules (say 1 freelancer for 1 module where they can't see other's module). I created…
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HD capture on iPad without HDCP

I am trying to allow HD capture from my iPad app via Apple's HDMI adapter. When trying to do this with various recording devices, I get messages that say the operation is not permitted due to copyright protection. Is it possible to disable HDCP…
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Protection for "early access" builds

I have a C++ application which I want to release to a bunch of testers (<10.) I need some simple way to limit those testers from distributing it further. There's no need for super-duper hack-proof protection here, but it should be impossible for…
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is it possible to install copy protection in a telegram bot?

is it possible to install copy protection in a telegram bot? the bot sends docx files, images and text. I would like to make it so that they cannot be copied but can be viewed. I couldn't find anything in the telegram bot api documentation, I can't…
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Any easy way to hide a little bit a Ruby Code?

I sought for a solution to make a Ruby code much more unreadable. In fact i'm not interested about obfuscating totally the code but getting a "one line *.rb file" or some thing like "Pretty Numbers" on this link should be appreciated. Before posting…
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How to convert a registered version of an application back to a trial version when it is copied to another computer?

I would like to include some type of copy protection scheme on my applications that would make a retail registered version of my software revert back to a trial version of my software if/when it gets installed on another computer. In the old days I…
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protecting app I've written

I've written a small app with python/wxpython and would like to sell it. I'm looking for help and advice on adding a software key or copy protection.My app is targeted at a fairly small industry group and wouldn't want most of my target market to…
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Is It Possible To Prevent a PDF From Opening On Another Computer?

I'm trying to sell a PDF file. I'm going to burn it and sell it on a CD locally. My fear is that one of the buyers will upload it online and make it available for free to the others. I was wondering if there's a way to make that uploaded file unable…
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Verify What Server Sends HTTP Request

How can I verify that the server sending a HTTP request is who I expect? I want to make a basic code protection system, where the software runs on a permitted webserver and does an Am_I_Allowed? HTTP request to my server. My server would then…
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Protecting the function and stored procedure on postgres

We have developed stored procedures and functions in a Postgres database which is performing the ETL process. This is deployed at the client system so we need to protect our code been mis-used/modified by the client place. Is there any way to…
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How to secure Microsoft Excel Worksheet based on Mac Address? It should run in only one system

I have an excel file which has lot of formulas for calculation written in macros. I want this excel file to run in only particular computer/ laptop. I want to manage list of computers who can access this excel file. If the file gets copied to any…
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How to use JavaScript or/and PHP, to detect a website/page being stolen/cloned and then redirect reader back to my website

I found hundreds of cloned versions of my website. Whoever is doing that are using some code that clones my web pages, changes my website name mydomain.com to clone1.com, clone2.com, clone3.com etc and this makes it impossible to use a simple JS or…
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Protect data within single program

In Windows would it be possible to protect data within a single program? I have been looking into CryptProtectData but whis is by user basis I would like something simular but on program basis. My program will have multiple users that require access…
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Hiding simple code using a header file?

EDIT: My question isn't a duplicate of this question, which addresses a conceptual question regarding the usage of Templates. Whereas, the focus of this question is on Hiding code in a header file. While my case involves template functions and thus…
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Serial numbers generation without user data

This is a followup to this question. The accepted answer is generally sufficient, but requires user to supply personal information (e.g. name) for generating the key. I'm wondering if it's possible to generate different keys based on a common seed,…
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