Copy Protection

In the absence of copy protection, media are easy to copy in their entirety using a machine (as opposed to photocopying each page of a book). This results in a situation where consumers can easily make copies of the items to give to their friends, a practice known as “casual copying”. This practice reduces the number of people in the market who lack the product. Copy protection is most commonly found on videotapes, DVDs, computer software discs, video game discs and cartridges, and more recently, some audio CDs.Companies that choose to publish works under copy protection do so because they believe that the added expense of implementing the copy protection will be offset by even greater increases in revenue by creating a greater scarcity of casually copied media.

For software publishers, a method of copy protection is to write the software so that it requires some evidence from the user that they have actually purchased the software.

IITAC consultants can help to counterfy software and content pirates. Contact us for further information!