Must-Know Glossary: Copy Protection Systems

Posted on August 24th, 2011

For plenty of explanations on Internet-related terms, look up this useful glossary of exclusively Internet-related rights and wrongs compiled by the Civil Society Internet Rights Project (CSIR), an initiative of GreenNet Educational Trust (GET) developed to impart information and provide resources and tools for civil society organisations to “safely and productively use the Internet as a means of increasing democracy and to campaign on social justice issues”.

Copy protection systems are explained thus in this glossary – “Under new International agreements on intellectual property, legal protection is given to copy protection measures. For example, the use of encoding to prevent the use of a product in a certain country, or the encryption of a database to prevent its disclosure, is legally protected. If anyone attempts to reverse-engineer or modify the product to make it work in a way that the holder of the intellectual property rights did not intend, then that modification of the system is itself unlawful. This issue has come to a head recently over the decryption of Internet address databases that work with Internet filtering or blocking software, and with the development of free versions of DVD players for the Linux operating system”.

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