copy protection n.
A class of methods for preventing
incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers
from using it. Considered silly.
A class of methods for preventing
incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers
from using it. Considered silly.
Related:
- copy protection n.
A class of methods for preventing
incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers
from using it.
Considered silly... - warez /weirz/ n.
Widely used in cracker subcultures
to denote cracked version of commercial software,
that is versions from which copy-protection has... - 0351 Ever copy a copy-protected disk?
0352 Ever create a copy-protection scheme?
from THE HACKER... - Brief History Of Linux (#16)
Closed source, opened wallets
In 1976 Bill Gates wrote the famous letter to Altair hobbyists accusing
them of "stealing software" and "preventing good software from being
written".
We must assume Bill's statement was true, because no... - binary four n.
[Usenet] The finger, in the sense of
`digitus impudicus'.
This comes from an analogy between binary and the... - Stealing from others is called plagiarism.
Stealing from yourself is called style... - Copy protection:
just say no..... - FTP /F-T-P/, not /fit'ip/
1. [techspeak] n. The
File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on
the Internet.
2. vt. To beam a file using the File Transfer Protocol... - dongle /dong'gl/ n.
1. A security or copy protection device for proprietary software consisting of a
serialized EPROM and some drivers in a D-25 connector shell,
which must be connected to an I/O port of the computer...
From the same category:
- phase-wrapping n.
[MIT] Syn. wrap around,
sense 2... - hardwarily /hard-weir'*-lee/ adv.
In a way pertaining to
hardware.
"The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective... - canonical adj.
[very common; historically, `according
to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of
something.
This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in... - kibozo /ki:-boh'zoh/ n.
[Usenet] One who
kibozes but is not Kibo (see KIBO,
sense 2)... - day mode n.
See phase (sense 1).
Used of people only...
