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What about Sony vs. Connectix? That case seems to have established that US copyright law does not confer a monopoly on devices or software to play commercial ga
by musicale 3y ago
What about Sony vs. Connectix? That case seems to have established that US copyright law does not confer a monopoly on devices or software to play commercial games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment,_Inc._v._Connectix_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment,_I....
- monocasa 3y agoThey was both A) a case decided before the DMCA was law, and B) the DRM system of the PS1 is pretty much solely focused on legitimate PS1s only playing legitimate discs; there's nothing in most games stopping other systems from reading everything off the disc freely in cleartext.
- musicale 3y ago> a case decided before the DMCA was law Decided in 2000, and the DMCA was signed into law in 1998?