Comment by Retr0id

Comment by Retr0id a day ago

4 replies

x-browser-copyright seems like an attempt at something similar to the Gameboy's nintendo-logo DRM (wherein cartridges are required to have the nintendo logo bitmap before they can boot, so any unlicensed carts would be trademark infringement)

userbinator a day ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Enterprises_Ltd._v._Accola... is the legal precedent that says trying to do that won't work, but then again maybe Google thinks it's invincible and can do whatever it wants after it ironically defeated Oracle in a case about interoperability and copyright.

  • Retr0id a day ago

    Even if they can't defend it legally, it costs them ~nothing to add the header and it could still act as a deterrent.

    • meibo 20 hours ago

      Apple famously does this with this word soup in their SMC chips, and proceeded to bankrupt a company that sold Hackintoshes and shipped it in their EFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation

          Our hard work
          by these words guarded
          please don't steal
      
          (c) Apple Computer Inc
      
      Though one could argue that they would have probably bankrupted them anyway even if they hadn't done that.
  • thayne 16 hours ago

    That was before the DMCA was passed. It's possible DMCA section 1201 could apply here.