In the Ninth Court of Appeals case Sony v. Connectix, the court ruled that copying this kind of program was fair use and not a copyright violation.
In the Ninth Court of Appeals case Sony v. Connectix, the court ruled that copying this kind of program was fair use and not a copyright violation. Phoenix Technologies specializes in making this kind of software. A proof-of-concept rootkit designed to target this kind of software surfaced in 2007, a malware named IceLord, but the first Trojan that targeted this kind of software in the wild was Mebromi. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface was designed to improve upon this technology, since this program cumbersomely reads files from the hard drive to start an operating system. It is possible to overclock a computer by modifying this program, and it can be updated by "flashing" it. For 10 points, name this software that is used to initialize a computer during startup.
In the Ninth Court of Appeals case Sony v. Connectix, the court ruled that copying this kind of program was fair use and not a copyright violation.
System BIOS [or Basic Input Output System; or ROM BIOS; or PC BIOS] 