CDR: Sony loses anti-reverse engineering suit against Connectix!!!

[sunder]

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. 

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Heh - apparently the judge decided that it's okay to allow reverse 
engineering in this case.  Wonder how this will affect DeCSS...

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