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Could you make access illegal using the DMCA, by putting some copyrighted content inside, with the physical key also being the license key?
by nomel 1y ago
Could you make access illegal using the DMCA, by putting some copyrighted content inside, with the physical key also being the license key?
- tofof 1y agoThis is how Nintendo engineered a legal argument disallowing 3rd party cartridges original GameBoy. The cartridge needed to display the Nintendo logo on startup which was checked pixel for pixel, otherwise the GameBoy wouldn't proceed with booting. Third party carts couldn't do so without infringing trademark.
- NobodyNada 1y agoNote that the courts ruled this technique invalid in Sega v. Accolade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade But that was in a pre-DMCA world, before the anti-circumvention provisions gave these companies more legal weapons to criminalize fair use and competition.