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Man, if only they'd made the cartridge play a little tune when the chip is disabled. Then they could do the full DMCA game. Seems like the key to modern securit
by jfoutz 9y ago
Man, if only they'd made the cartridge play a little tune when the chip is disabled. Then they could do the full DMCA game. Seems like the key to modern security is to have something copyrighted behind a terrible lock
- extrapickles 9y agoTrackIR uses a shitty poem as part of its initialization routine so it will fall under copyright so the makers can control who writes software for it.
- B0073D 9y agoDo you have a source for that? (no pun intended)
- extrapickles 9y agoYou can find one of their DCMA notices here: https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/63305# https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/63305#
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- duskwuff 9y agoThat seems unlikely to hold up in court. Sega v. Accolade was a very similar situation, and the court found that Accolade's use of a copyrighted string (the "Trademark Security System") was acceptable as an unavoidable requirement of Sega's console. Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade