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[-] startlefrenzy@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Sounds like they have no intention to:

And to all the armchair lawyers out there, the letter to Valve did not make any claims that we were violating a US copyright by including the Wii Common Key, as a short string of entirely random letters and numbers generated by a machine is not copyrightable under current US copyright law. If that ever changes, the world will be far too busy to think about emulation.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

the old "we know they're full of shit but there's nothing we can do about it without making it look like we concede" situation.

[-] kitonthenet@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

Lol is that how they did it? Do they have documentation about it (I’d assume to actually be clear of copyright they’d need to show their work, similar to ibm compatibles of old)

[-] MeowdyPardner@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

It sounds like it's the same situation as the TI calculator signing key which I think was brute forced many years ago, allowing custom firmware to be developed. And also any DVD ripping program which is able to bypass CSS which is also based on a master key that was figured out or leaked. There's a decent pedigree of master keys not being copyrightable, much to the MPAA / TI lawyers chagrin

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if the information in phone books isn't in scope of copyright for failing to meet a minimum standard of "creativity" surely a random number shouldn't be either.

But yeah. It sounds like the legal tactic Nintendo used to scare Valve (well, Valve was complicit, but anyway) was about the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking parts of the DMCA.

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