From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 10:18:54 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Digital Fingerprinting
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At 6:57 AM 9/16/95, Alan Olsen wrote:

>I seem to remember a software piracy case from a number of years back.  The
>case was settled by Apple showing that their code had been copied by the
>copyright "easteregg" hidden in the roms.  Made for a quick and effective
>demonstration in court.  (The story may be apocryphal, but it makes for an
>example as to how such things do have a (supposed) valid use in protecting
>code from being snagged by  other companies.)

And someone just cited the same (or very similar) example, where the "quick
and effective demonstration" nevertheless resulted (they said) in an
acquittal.

So, which way did it go?

--Tim May

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