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HTML tweak puts block on web video copying

...Javascript to select content protection mechanisms, and implement custom licence-management algorithms.Copy protection on open-source browsers Mozilla developer Chris Pearce asked whether the... Read more

23 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Malware writers turn to copy protection for their work

Symantec has said that malware writers are increasingly using digital rights management technology found in mainstream software to protect their own work Read more

20 January, 2011 by Darren Pauli
Pseudonymous Privacy Preserving Buyer-Seller Watermarking Protocol

Pseudonymous Privacy Preserving Buyer-Seller Watermarking Protocol

...buyer-seller watermarking protocol utilize watermarking along with cryptography for copyright and copy protection for the seller and meanwhile it also preserve buyers rights for... Read more

1 November, 2011
WM Capture 6.0.4

WM Capture 6.0.4

...it. WM Capture does not circumvent DRM (Digital Rights Management) or any copy protection technology so it's 100% legal world-wide. In addition to... Read more

2 May, 2012
Altiverb 6.3.7

Altiverb 6.3.7

...Altiverb 6 gives you a choice between iLok SmartKey or Challenge/response copy protection, it lets you sample your own spaces (currently Mac only), and... Read more

3 November, 2011
Manco .NET Licensing System 6.1.1

Manco .NET Licensing System 6.1.1

Manco Licensing System is powerful licensing and copy protection tools for .NET Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET applications, controls... Read more

20 June, 2011

Wi-Fi and femtocells will save mobile networks

...you'd choose to watch it on such a small screen -- unless copy protection prevents you from watching it on anything else. A single-user... Read more

19 April, 2011

Is stealing software different from stealing hardware?

...have one licence for (or downloading an app that doesn't have copy protection that they don't have any licences for). Is that theft... Read more

6 October, 2010

Intel confirms leaked HDCP copyright-protection code

...For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Intel: Leaked HDCP copy protection code is legit on CNET News Read more

17 September, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Google investigates Android app licence hack

...party code". The new server is a step up from the old copy-protection system used in the Android Market, Bray said, and "when correctly... Read more

25 August, 2010 by Tom Krazit

US says it's OK to jailbreak an iPhone, and take excerpts from DVDs

...commercial works for outlets such as YouTube. They can also legally circumvent copy protection on ebooks for the purpose of using “read aloud” features, and... Read more

26 July, 2010

The future?s bright, the future?s ? UltraViolet?

...uniting behind a new form of digital rights management (DRM) -- that is, copy protection -- called UltraViolet. The Web site at uvvu.com claims it "can... Read more

20 July, 2010
RioDVD Region Free Player 1.6

RioDVD Region Free Player 1.6

...Speakers, Digital Zoom, Video Desktop. RioDVD Region Free Player also offers some copy-protection free features like: Region Free, RCE Free, UOP Free, Macrovision Free... Read more

15 June, 2010
CryptoLicensing For ActiveX 2012 build 621522

CryptoLicensing For ActiveX 2012 build 621522

CryptoLicensing For ActiveX adds licensing, copy-protection, activation and hardware-locking capabilities to your VB6, VBA, RealBasic, Delphi... Read more

22 May, 2012
CryptoLicensing For MFC 2012 build 621522

CryptoLicensing For MFC 2012 build 621522

CryptoLicensing For MFC adds licensing, copy-protection, activation, and hardware-locking capabilities to your MFC, ATL or C... Read more

22 May, 2012

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