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
One journalist observed that the court’s ruling “prompted printer companies to try and develop more intricate forms of copy protection for cartridges.”
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2016
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
That’s because the Librarian of Congress periodically examines and approves a series of exemptions to the anti-circumvention rules, allowing people to bypass copy protection in order to do unambiguously legal things.
From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2016
I would have told an academic cryptography researcher that he need not fear legal threats from copyright owners simply for researching and publishing work on the vulnerabilities of copy protection schemes.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
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