Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Copy Protection
various methods used mainly in the 1970s and 1980s to keep users from making unauthorized copies of software programs on disk. The drawback to copy protected software is that making a backup copy becomes difficult if not impossible. Under US Copyright law, users are allowed to backup disks. Consequently, software manufacturers have tried to discourage piracy by requiring that the user enters a registration number when installing the program.
