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x-browser-copyright seems like an attempt at something similar to the Gameboy's nintendo-logo DRM (wherein cartridges are required to have the nintendo logo bit
by Retr0id 1y ago
x-browser-copyright seems like an attempt at something similar to the Gameboy's nintendo-logo DRM (wherein cartridges are required to have the nintendo logo bitmap before they can boot, so any unlicensed carts would be trademark infringement)
- userbinator 1y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Enterprises_Ltd._v._Accolade%2C_Inc%2E http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Enterprises_Ltd._v._Accola... is the legal precedent that says trying to do that won't work, but then again maybe Google thinks it's invincible and can do whatever it wants after it ironically defeated Oracle in a case about interoperability and copyright.
- Retr0id 1y agoEven if they can't defend it legally, it costs them ~nothing to add the header and it could still act as a deterrent.
- meibo 1y agoApple famously does this with this word soup in their SMC chips, and proceeded to bankrupt a company that sold Hackintoshes and shipped it in their EFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation Our hard work by these words guarded please don't steal (c) Apple Computer Inc Though one could argue that they would have probably bankrupted them anyway even if they hadn't done that.
- thayne 1y agoThat was before the DMCA was passed. It's possible DMCA section 1201 could apply here.