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by omegacharlie 1224 days ago
> The notorious Utopia boot disc got around the obfuscation problem with a pirated Katana SDK and used the same reset technique, letting pirated software load by simply booting Utopia and switching discs when instructed. The Utopia crew flamed out quickly as they were stupid enough to put their photographs on the disc, leading to a knock on the door from German police

Someone know more to this story? (i.e what was exactly on the disc, and what were the legal basis of said police action)

2 comments

Re: what was on the disc, you'd see a spinning 3D reindeer. I believe I still have one in my basement somewhere...
Dunno but German copyright laws are very authoritarian and also enforced.