copy protection
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It would almost certainly extend an existing copy protection scheme to stop non-NFT owners from pirating its books.
From The Verge • Aug. 3, 2022
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
They will often do it as much to show that they are smarter than the developper who designed the copy protection scheme than to actually copy the program.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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