DRM (digital rights management) is the enforcement of restrictions on access control to data through technical means, such as copy protection.
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Are there DRM techniques to effectively prevent pirating?
A question on Skeptics.SE asks whether current DRM techniques effectively prevent pirating: Is DRM effective?
The question for IT Security is: Can DRM be made effective, and are there any examples?
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ZX Spectrum tape loader: how was copy prevention implemented?
I am curious how copy prevention was implemented for games or other programs loaded from cassette on the micro computers of the early 1980s, such as the ZX Spectrum 48k. If I recall correctly, some ...
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What role does cryptography play in anti-piracy?
As a follow-up to Cipher for Product Registration, are there secure yet usable cryptographic standards/protocols for protecting software and data used by software? I'm interested in hardware and ...
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Atypical DRM situation: distribute pictures to select partners, then prevent them from reusing them
We want to distribute digital content (think pictures) to a select number of partners (around 1000, worldwide) to use as visual reference. We would like however to prevent them from copying or in any ...
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Practical DRM for pdfs
An organization I am consulting for is trying to find a DRM solution for an ebook that they publish internally. It is in pdf format.
Does anybody have experience with DRM for pdfs, and if so, any ...
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How far can we go in preventing videos from spreading out using P2P networks like BitTorrent?
Everyday, I see many of my friends downloading movies off P2P networks like BitTorrent. Isn't there any way for those hardworking movie producers to save their work from being distributed like this?
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A safe license System
So I'm trying to think of a good way to check if the license key a user supplies for a program is legit or not.
Let's suppose this is the way they get there license
They make some type of purchase.
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Storing License Keys
I'm creating an application which generates licenses key and stores this in a database (the licenses are checked on-line). I don't wish to store these license unhashed - in case the database is ...
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How do software keygens work?
I have seen them plenty of times, with many different types of software, but the one thing I have always wondered, is how software keygens know what key to generate. I know the basic principle of it: ...
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Is DRM considered Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, or some combination of the three?
I was discussing software trial time limit enforcement with a colleague and the idea of CIA came up. Do stricter enforcement techniques increase confidentiality at the expense of availability? (for ...
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Preventing License protection circumvention in Java software
A software (written in Java) by a vendor uses DSA signature to verify that the license information is correct.
It achieves this by embedding the public key in the same Java software.
Legit license ...
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Product Security Certification? [closed]
My company is looking for a 3rd party certification agency--reputed and known, of course--to do a penetration testing on our e-book application and certify us. The only one I came across through ...
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Activation Protection Technologies in Windows 8
Microsoft has implemented a new activation protection with SLIC 3.0, how does this technology work - specifically as compared to the SLIC used in Windows 7?
