Pirates’ Activity Detection towards Protection of Digital Copyrights
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2014-03
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Addis Ababa University
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The economic importance of copyright law for the copyright owner is unquestionable. The copyright owners have been abused their right of using their intellectual property as they deserve. Looking their right is violated copyright owners didn’t sit idle; actions have been taken by the owners unity starting from the establishment of the copyright law article and enforcing the law to be realized. Nevertheless, there is a big gap between the copyright law and realizing it, because of reasons like: the technology and the digital nature of the works, the understanding of copyright law by the public, the difficulty of finding forensic to accuse someone violating the rule, and so on. The struggle to keep the copyright protected has been tried indifferent ways: by creating awareness sessions with the public, by putting technical mechanisms to stop illegal copies, by producing forensic evidence to ask violators, and other solutions which are considered as beneficiary by the copy owners. But still there is a need of copy protection schemes to limit the access of the copyrighted works to legitimate customers and reduce piracies.
This research deals with pirates’ activity detection and protection of digital copyright law. By predicting out all the possible ways through which pirate got a chance to copy and redistribute the works. The basic pirates’ acts are copying, burning and sharing; in this research all the possibilities of the above acts are well identified,a mechanism to detect and prevent the pirates’ acts is proposed and the proposed technique is conceptualized by developing a prototype. Regarding copying; pirates’ acts to copy an entire CD/DVD with copyrighted content are listed out. Copying is detected by comparing the system clipboard content with digital content. The burning acts are traced in two ways: firstby looking the most widely used burners/authoring applications from the process table of the operating system and second for pirates expected burners a way to prevent burning is proposed by disabling the burning functionality at CD/DVD entrance and enabling it at CD eject.Finallyan algorithm to detect and prevent sharing is proposed by comparing the first and later IP addressof the digital content.
Keywords: Piracy, Copyright law, Digital content, system clipboard
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Piracy; Copyright Law;Digital Content; System Clipboard