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  2. List of Compact Disc and DVD copy protection schemes

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    This copy protection can be defeated simply by using a computer that is not running Microsoft Windows, not using an account with administrative privileges, or preventing the installer from running, and has long since been discontinued due to a public relations disaster caused by the software behaving identically to a rootkit.

  3. Software protection dongle - Wikipedia

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    The hardware key is programmed with a product key or other cryptographic protection mechanism and functions via an electrical connector to an external bus of the computer or appliance. [ 2 ] In software protection, dongles are two-interface security tokens with transient data flow with a pull [ clarification needed ] communication that reads ...

  4. Compact Disc and DVD copy protection - Wikipedia

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    CD/DVD copy protection is a blanket term for various methods of copy protection for CDs and DVDs. Such methods include DRM, CD-checks, Dummy Files, illegal tables of contents, over-sizing or over-burning the CD, physical errors and bad sectors. Many protection schemes rely on breaking compliance with CD and DVD standards, leading to playback ...

  5. Safety and security features available with AOL Desktop Gold

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    The random letters, numbers, and characters in the top-right of your screen is the anti-keylogging window that disguises the actual keys you type on your keyboard with randomly-generated characters. This feature helps prevent criminals from stealing your sensitive data while you're signed into Desktop Gold.

  6. Copy protection - Wikipedia

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    Copy protection for computer software, especially for games, has been a long cat-and-mouse struggle between publishers and crackers.These were (and are) programmers who defeated copy protection on software as a hobby, add their alias to the title screen, and then distribute the "cracked" product to the network of warez BBSes or Internet sites that specialized in distributing unauthorized ...

  7. CD-ROM - Wikipedia

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    Software distributors, and in particular distributors of computer games, often make use of various copy protection schemes to prevent software running from any media besides the original CD-ROMs. This differs somewhat from audio CD protection in that it is usually implemented in both the media and the software itself. The CD-ROM itself may ...

  8. Extended Copy Protection - Wikipedia

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    Extended Copy Protection (XCP) is a software package developed by the British company First 4 Internet (which on 20 November 2006, changed its name to Fortium Technologies Ltd) and sold as a copy protection or digital rights management (DRM) scheme for Compact Discs.

  9. Product key - Wikipedia

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    Product key on a Proof of License Certificate of Authenticity for Windows Vista Home Premium. A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters.