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Originally, the Easter eggs served a useful purpose as well. Not unlike [[cartography|cartographers]] who may insert [[trap street]]s or nonexistent [[landscape]] features as a [[copyright infringement]] detection aid, IC designers may also build non-functional circuits on their chips to help them catch infringers. Easter eggs, however benign, if directly copied by the [[defendant]], could be used in [[mask work]] infringement litigation. Changes to the copyright laws (in the USA, the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984, and similar laws in other countries) now grant automatic exclusive rights to [[mask work]]s, and the Easter egg no longer serves any practical use.

<img src="http://cache.gizmodo.com/images/2006/06/wd_mybookpro.jpg">"Western Digital MyBook Pro"</img>[[Western Digital]]'s [[MyBook Pro]] has several words on the metal band that wraps around 3 sides in [[Morse Code]]. The code reads:

PERSONALRELIABLEINNOVATIVESIMPLE

INNOVATIVEPERSONALDESIGNRELIABLE