Sony's Ancient Lawsuit vs. Cheat Device Heads in Right Direction – Sony's DefeatAndy Maxwell, 05 Jul 08:05 PM When today's home video gaming market
 | When today's home video gaming market took its first tentative baby steps thanks to more affordable hardware in the early 1980s, the details of Sony's lawsuit against Datel would've been dismissed as outrageous. This was a time of experimentation; one that thrived on the energy of pushing unimaginably incapable hardware by today's standards, to perform in unexpected ways that often exceeded manufacturers' expectations. In some cases, that included being able to run half-decent games, or even games at all. Sony Wins Early But Cooler Heads Prevail Software quite rightly receives protection under copyright law but in Datel, Sony wants a ruling that outlaws the modification of variables generated by software that only ever exist in RAM and form no part of the underlying copyrighted source code. Datel's software simply ran alongside games like Motorstorm Arctic Edge, tweaking values in memory to modify how the game played. In January 2012, the Hamburg Regional Court found largely in fav...Read More |
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