Wikipedia used in Judicial Ruling

It’s nice to see that even judges will use wikipedia to quickly get up to speed on previously unknown subjects:

This theory appears to conflate two quite different early video games, one called “Breakout” and another called “Asteroids.” Descriptions of the two games in an online encyclopedia reveal no common features beyond their roughly comparable vintage. (See Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout>; cf. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_%28game%29> (as of May 23, 2006).) The author of the theory may have confused Asteroids with Arkanoid, a “clone” of Breakout. (See Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid> (as of May 23, 2006).)

—From the ruling of Apple vs. Jason O Grady (the people who published inside info on Apple products)

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