[Anarch157a]

> Could it be for trademark / copyright protection?

Oracle uses this to connect SQL*Plus client to the database. This way, if you make a client without signing one their draconian contracts, they can sue you for infringing the copyrights on the poem.

[wbl]

Nintendo tried that and got slapped down hard.

[bitwize]

Sega tried that with trademark law and they got slapped down hard.