copy protection
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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
Huang, meanwhile, says that he can’t build tools for legally capturing and editing digital video because of a copy protection system that limits viewing video over HDMI.
From The Verge • Jul. 21, 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
My peers seem to feel similarly—the volume of peer-reviewed research on copy protection technologies fell off about this time and has not recovered.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2013
Action of removing the copy protection from a commercial program.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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