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And some have been taken to court. . .
But they have been commercial enterprises. ANY DVD moved it's web site after losing a US court case. There was a UK firm (Lightning? A one-man shop, anyways) that was shut down with a cease-and-desist order around 2006 if I remember correctly. (The binaries are still floating around the Internet)
To see how obtuse things can get, look up repairing modern John Deere tractors. you can't fix them once you buy them, because all the control codes are copyrighted and encrypted. You have to pay John Deere whatever they want to charge to fix the $100,000 tractor.
Last edited by Greg Anos; 01-06-2019 at 10:30 AM.
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