copy protection
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This morning, the office submitted new exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bars breaking software copy protection.
From The Verge • Oct. 27, 2021
There was always the possibility of surprise — a mislabeled tape or a prankster foiling the copy protection tab and adding a weird home movie at the end of “Sleepless in Seattle.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2017
Matthew Green, a computer researcher, could be punished for investigating software vulnerabilities if he had to bypass a copy protection system to do so.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2016
It’s more like the Kaleidescape movie server, in that it’s a hard drive with a lot of copy protection.
From Forbes • Oct. 4, 2013
Once "cracked" of its copy protection, the program, being digital data, becomes infinitely reproducible.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
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