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circumvention

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The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.

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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law. Ambrose Bierce

And how do you track or try to prevent circumvention or trans shipping of just steel mill products through Mexico? Source: Internet

Currently, a user can locate the song, listen to it, and send it to someone else, play it in the software of their choice, or back it up (and in some cases, use circumvention software to decrypt it). Source: Internet

Another concern is that circumvention tools–especially those that only use a single proxy, which holds information about who is talking to whom–can create privacy and security worries of their own. Source: Internet

However, under strong pressure from anti-whaling countries, who viewed scientific whaling as a circumvention of the moratorium, Iceland ceased whaling in 1989. Source: Internet

Manufacturers have resorted to legal threats via the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and similar laws to prevent their circumvention, with varying degrees of success. Source: Internet

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