Well, that’s the thing, they encode the data of the security chip such that it’s a type of “media” whose “content” unlocks the functionality and copying the written media content is how they legally frame it as a tortuously stretched “violation of copyright”
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IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agocopyright
Patent is the word you’re looking for
Copyright is for words, videos, audios
Patent is for technology
Draegur@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Godort@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Things get a little nebulous when you’re talking about microcode running on a proprietary IC.