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Hackers sued for tinkering with Xbox games
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2005-02-09

In the first case of its kind, a California video game maker is suing an entire community of software tinkerers for reverse engineering and modifying Xbox games that they legally purchased.

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moral rights, not in the USA 2005-02-11
Anonymous
Sorry Bub,

there are no moral rights per se

in the US.

In fact, where some works of copyright (music) are concerned, there is even a COMPULSORY copyright licensing system.

Reverse engineering is explicitly allowed by the DMCA,

and distributing your own material, however unseemly, is the a...

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