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What about Sony vs. Connectix? That case seems to have established that US copyright law does not confer a monopoly on devices or software to play commercial games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment,_I....



They was both A) a case decided before the DMCA was law, and B) the DRM system of the PS1 is pretty much solely focused on legitimate PS1s only playing legitimate discs; there's nothing in most games stopping other systems from reading everything off the disc freely in cleartext.


> a case decided before the DMCA was law

Decided in 2000, and the DMCA was signed into law in 1998?




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