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
They work on completely backwards logic: instead of defining special cases where bypassing copy protection enables copyright infringement, they require people engaging in clearly protected and legal activities to ask for permission.
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
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 Guy L. Steele
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