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Re:Supreme Court Sides with Consumers–Affirms Your Right to ... by extrapickles on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:32PM (#14467232)
TrackIR uses a shitty poem as part of its initialization routine so it will fall under copyright so the makers can control who writes software for it.
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Re:Supreme Court Sides with Consumers–Affirms Your Right to ... by duskwuff on Friday June 02, 2017 @12:23AM (#14467452)
That seems unlikely to hold up in court. Sega v. Accolade was a very similar situation, and the court found that Accolade's use of a copyrighted string (the "Trademark Security System") was acceptable as an unavoidable requirement of Sega's console.

Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

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Re:Supreme Court Sides with Consumers–Affirms Your Right to ... by B0073D on Friday June 02, 2017 @12:00AM (#14467351)
Do you have a source for that? (no pun intended)
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Re:Supreme Court Sides with Consumers–Affirms Your Right to ... by extrapickles on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:22AM (#14467887)
You can find one of their DCMA notices here: https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/63305#
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