Therefore convenient and effective methods are needed to protect software and software intellectual property.

因此，需要一种有效的方法来保护软件和软件知识产权。

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But the emergence of open source software is not the subversion and denial of the traditional intellectual property. In fact, it makes use of the traditional intellectual property to protect itself.

但开源软件的出现并不是对传统知识产权的颠覆与否定，而是在其基础上利用其原有规则所作出对开源软件的保护。

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There is a current exception, but it is narrow and unclear, and this has a chilling effect upon a lot of legitimate research -- some of the research would actually help protect intellectual property by helping to make digital rights management software stronger.

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