CDR: Sony loses anti-reverse engineering suit against Connectix!!!
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2915049.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni Sony loses appeal in PlayStation copyright fight By Bloomberg News October 2, 2000, 9:15 a.m. PT WASHINGTON--Sony today lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to limit rivals from using reverse engineering to create competing products. The justices, without comment, refused to consider Sony's appeal of a decision rejecting its copyright claims against Connectix, whose Virtual Game Station competes with Sony's top-selling PlayStation game console. <SNIP> Heh - apparently the judge decided that it's okay to allow reverse engineering in this case. Wonder how this will affect DeCSS... -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------
In article <39DA50BF.918BCC0@sunder.net>, sunder <sunder@sunder.net> wrote:
Heh - apparently the judge decided that it's okay to allow reverse engineering in this case. Wonder how this will affect DeCSS...
Well, the MPAA v 2600 case ("constructing and trafficing in a circumvention device") isn't about reverse engineering, so "not at all". The weaker DVD-CCA case ("theft of a trade secret in violation of a clickthrough licence agreement" (said agreement having been clicked through by a minor in anither country, of course)) depends on how the reverse-engineering Connectix did relates to that done by the original CSS extractors. - Ian
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