Summary of Copy Protection Technology

Copy Protection Technology is Doomed

48 Computer Copy Protection Technology Is Doomed A t some fundamental level, seemingly as axiomatic as the speed of light or the conservation of energy, copying information— strings of bits—will always be easy. Historically, systems intended to restrict this fundamental property have always been defeated, and there is no reason they won't continue to be defeated. Copying has always been easy, w...

KOPI Protection instead of Copy Protection

This paper describes how a document can be protected against plagiarism without the need to use heavy copy protection systems, as despite they are hard to break, they make the lives of legitimate users very difficult.

CD/DVD Copy Protection

Privacy - DRM : Data Protection by Copy Protection ?

Protecting media contents and enforcing privacy policies seem to be related problems: mechanisms are needed to restrict data processing outside the copyright holder’s, respectively data subject’s, domain of control. A systematic analysis of requirements, properties, and experiences with digital rights management (DRM) reveals substantial differences between Content-DRM to protect media contents...

Copy Protection for DVD Video

The prospect of consumer digital versatile disk (DVD) recorders highlights the challenge of protecting copyrighted video content from piracy. We describe the copy protection system currently under consideration for DVD. The copy protection system broadly tries to prevent illicit copies from being made from either the analog or digital I/O channels of DVD recorders. An analog copy protection sys...