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It's digital /now/ but Nintendo also used the design of their logo embossed on FDS disks as a (very) primitive form of DRM (there was a corresponding piece of p
by ChickeNES 3y ago
It's digital /now/ but Nintendo also used the design of their logo embossed on FDS disks as a (very) primitive form of DRM (there was a corresponding piece of plastic in the drive that would only sit flush if the disk had the right cutouts).
- dylan604 3y agoUntil somebody finds the right die to use to cue the covers. Reminds of the concert venue that was using a hole punch to indicate to the bouncers the person had floor access. Somebody had a pocket knife and everyone was gathered around the corner trying to cut round circles to fool the bouncers. Or the people that reversed the TSA master key from photographs. Shape based "security" is a joke.
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- semanticist 3y agoThe point wasn't that the shape was secret, it's that the shape was trade-marked, and so very easy for Nintendo to shut down anyone using it.
- Luc 3y agoIt didn't work like that though. A pirate doesn't need to copy the Nintendo logo to make the disc functional, they just need to make 2 rectangular slots on each side of the disc. Nintendo just arranged it so it fits nicely within their logo.
- Clamchop 3y agoI wonder if this would have held up in the US if it had been disputed. Neither trademark nor copyright is allowed to be functional and Nintendo effectively made their mark a functional requirement for a disk to fit.