When Copyright Almost Killed AIBO's Personality

Looking at the wild early days of Sony's AIBO robot dog. When the development of this Artificial Intelligence roBOt personality clashed with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. What happened when a DMCA takedown killed third party custom AIBO personalities and software. How Sony protected AIBO's software on Memory Sticks and Aibohack's StikZap software.

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AIBO:
https://www.aibohack.com/
http://www.dogsbodynet.com/dogslife.html
https://aibovet.net/
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Music:
Quiet Music for Tiny Robots - The February Album
Interlude 1 & You Were My Robot Lover

Books:
Bastard Culture!: How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n23s

Images:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaniea...
http://archive.maas.museum/hsc/aibo/t...
https://aibo.miraheze.org/wiki/AIBO_Pal
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...

Video:
Inside Lens - Man's Best Friend
http://www.jffsf.org/2017/inside-lens...
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