Is the recent Sony vs. Connectix case relevant to these cases?
Despite a number of important differences – such as the fact that Sony vs. Connectix was not a 17 U.S.C. 1201 suit, but in fact a copyright infringement case – the recent Sony vs. Connectix suit is similar enough to the current DeCSS situation to be an important reference. What happened was this. Connectix Corp. built a software emulator for the Apple Macintosh to play Sony Playstation games. To do this, the Connectix engineers downloaded a copy of the Playstation BIOS from the Internet and reverse engineered it using “clean room” methods. The resulting emulator plays about a hundred Playstation games. Sony sued. At first, a district court granted an injunction based on Sony’s claim of copyright infringement, as well as their claim that the fact that the emulator isn’t official Sony code would mean a deterioration in the Playstation market. On February 10, 2000, Judge Canby of the 9th District Court of Appeals overturned the injunction, on the grounds that the reverse engineering was l
Despite a number of important differences – such as the fact that Sony vs. Connectix was not a 17 U.S.C. 1201 suit, but in fact a copyright infringement case – the recent Sony vs. Connectix suit is similar enough to the current DeCSS situation to be an important reference. What happened was this. Connectix Corp. built a software emulator for the Apple Macintosh to play Sony Playstation games. To do this, the Connectix engineers downloaded a copy of the Playstation BIOS from the Internet and reverse engineered it using “clean room” methods. The resulting emulator plays about a hundred Playstation games. Sony sued. At first, a district court granted an injunction based on Sony’s claim of copyright infringement, as well as their claim that the fact that the emulator isn’t official Sony code would mean a deterioration in the Playstation market. On February 10, 2000, Judge Canby of the 9th District Court of Appeals overturned the injunction, on the grounds that the reverse engineering was l
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