My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse (www.pcgamer.com)

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There's something I find deeply funny about the use of copyright and trademark symbols in games. I get why these symbols are important in legal contexts, but, like, was it actually vital to display ® or ™ next to every character's name in the Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 fighting game on the PlayStation® 2? Everybody knows you own Goku, dawg. They can't steal him just because you didn't slap down that icon somewhere.

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[-] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

You are right but I would love to see that court case. "yes your honor it said the character was copywrited at the beginning of launching the game and the full legal text was available in the options menu but if you pressed square, triangle, then square when the match was 3-2 and the opponent was at 172% stock the copywrite symbol didn't appear so I thought that instance was fair game" and the judge just responds "no"

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