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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: The Sega Lawsuit and Diamond
Date: 4 Nov 1992 18:38:05 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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In article <1992Nov3.215919.17713@menudo.uh.edu> cosc17zz@menudo.uh.edu (Daniel Supernaw-Issen) writes:
>
>Last night the following occured to me.  Given that Sega lost its lawsuit
>resulting in a ruling that allowed the dissassembly of ROMs for the purposes
>of creating an interfacing product, why can't Diamonds ROMs be similarly 
>disassembled?

Because they would sue you anyway.

True, they would probably lose - if the case came to court.

But unless you have a fortune to spend on legal defense, it wouldn't.

Welcome to the good ol' US of A.

c