Anti-piracy
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Anti-piracy describes the attempt to prevent misappropriation of intellectual property typically occurring by copying of copyrighted work without permission or payment of royalties to the originator or rights owner.
It includes, but is by no mean limited to, the combined efforts of corporate associations (such as the RIAA and MPAA), law enforcement agencies (such as the FBI and Interpol), and various world governments to combat software piracy and other forms of copyright infringement. These measures often come in the form of copy-controlled software or audio-visual media, such as regionally-encoded DVDs.
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Examples of Anti-Piracy
- RIAA suing file-sharers that share music over P2P networks such as KaZaA and Gnutella.
- MPAA encryption of DVD movies using the CSS cipher and prohibiting the distribution and use of DeCSS, while also having the effect of banning open source DVD player software.
- Coded Anti-Piracy, also called CAP codes, as a way to put a forensic identification on the film to trace back pirated films to the source.
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See also
- Open source and the open source movement