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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Any way to *CREATE* Vcr+ (VCR PLUS) codes??? (please read)
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 01:57:34 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
-
- > A possibly relevant note appears in John Dvorak's column in the
- >Jan 12 PC Magazine. To summarize:
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- > Sega sued Accolade, which was making Sega Genesis game
- >cartridges without getting licensing from Sega. This suit was settled
- >in Accolade's favor with a ruling that:
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- > * Accolade could make Genesis games without asking Sega's permission.
- > * Accolade could reverse engineer the Sega software needed to let the
- > cartridge talk to the machine.
- > * Accolade could use a Sega cartridge as a model for the reverse engineering.
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- > Dvorak says: "Who says you can't look at the code of the product
- >you're reverse engineering? ... This means that software code of a
- >competitor now can be examined for the purposes of reverse
- >engineering."
-
- That's one Judge on the particulars and peculiarities of one case. Teh
- next judge could well ignore this judgement and come to the opposite
- conclusion, or say that the case is sufficiently different that this
- judgement has no bearing. Ah the fun of the Law.
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