Questions tagged [piracy-prevention]

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How do you make copy protected CDs?

I am working on making educational CDs. I require medium level copy protection code which may not be easily breakable by "non experts", similar to that in game CDs, so you have to have the CD in the drive while playing and have to enter key while…
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Licence and/or concurrent use enforcement mechanism for fairly open UNIX product?

I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to add license key enforcement or concurrent user limit enforcement to a (UNIX-based) software product that - while not explicitly open-source - the end-user nominally has source code to, or could,…
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Is it possible to inspect the command line arguments passed to an VB6 app from outside the app

I have a VB6 application that has a licensing module in VB6 which checks for the authenticated user. If authentication is successful, this application calls main application with authentication information. Now, I wanted to pass information in…
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automating RAPIDSHARE piracy file take down process

I found a new search engine that speeds up finding piracy files from rapidshare, how could I automate a tool that finds our product using this engine and outputs the list of the rapidshare URLs that will be then sent to abuse@rapidshare.com. search…
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How can I protect my videos from being stolen?

I produce movies for local companies and use JWplayer to display them on my website. However, it appears that a few companies have snatched the source of the FLV's ( Amazon's EC2 ), and embedded it on their site. Is there a practical way to prevent…
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Website project piracy checker system for mern stack

I am going go create a ecommcere website. I want to implement website tracking. If sombody clone my website and resell it. How can i track ?. How much url are using my created website and all things. And want to add unique serial key. In mern…
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Detect if debugger is in use during runtime

I'm looking to develop a "secure" application and as a security mitigation, I'd like to be able to discover if a debugger (GDB, LLDB...) is in use on the currently running application; aborting if detected. How can I detect monitoring of a…
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Basic precautions to prevent piracy?

It's my first app and I am concerned about piracy. I know it's not possible to fully prevent it but I would like to make it as hard that the hacker wouldn't simply find it worth. I have read some older threads but I don't know how secure Android and…
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Prevent extraction of data to external system from within the ACCESS

I'm developing a small MS Access 2007-2010 database with personal details and need to prevent the extraction of table from this database into any other database. 1) does that objective have to be done from within SQL and have the MDBS link to…
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icacls /deny (de and d) doesn''t work

I'm truin to use icacls to prevent file deletion I tried : icacls /deny Everyone:D - icacls /deny users:D - icacls /deny administrator:D but this prevents me from accessing the file and I can't execute it I then tried de instead of d but in this…
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How to mask an embedded audio file from being seen and downloaded from dev tools?

For a small website I am creating, I have an embedded piece of audio which plays on the landing screen, the current method I am using is just by simply embedding it via standard html: The…
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How to prevent redistribution of content bought online

Is there a way to prevent content (media) files from being used by anyone except those actually paying for the content? At this point I am thinking of e-books created with the use of FlippingBook software, or e-books in the form of PDF files,…
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Does your employer enforce the use of anti-piracy software?

How does your employer limit/prevent pirating of its products? Some have the view that piracy can be good because of the market share and exposure it gives. Sure these are benefits but they come at a cost. Do you use any anti-piracy software or…
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Has somebody tried the new Licensing service already?

Yesterday google released a new service regarding the android market. A new way to check the licensing of your applications. See the blog for more informations. Has anybody updated her/his app already? How is it working for you? Are there any…
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Tracking Rails App usage on the Web/Intranet

We have developed an open source web application under LGPL license and hosted in a LIVE demo server. Also the source code is available in source forge. Numerous downloads are being notified day by day. So we would like to track the live usage of…