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Software copyright is the relatively recent extension of copyright law to machine-readable software. It is used by proprietary software companies to prevent the unauthorized copying of their software. unless the asker was thinking about content-protection technology imposed on digital audio and video including cd's dvd's and digital content downloadable from the internet?

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