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Subject: Re: A hypothetical question...

Author: Mark Rawlings

Date: 06:51:58 05/04/02

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Just a thought, but is there any way to intentionally add a number of bad
lines/moves to the book and have Rebel programmed to not to use them.  That way,
if someone hacks the book for use in their program, they would inherit a number
of bad book moves??  I guess this wouldn't work, though, if someone autoplays a
bunch of games with a learning program...

Mark



On May 04, 2002 at 06:05:50, Jeroen Noomen wrote:

>On May 04, 2002 at 05:33:09, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>Steve,
>
>The answer is simple: I don't want my book to be hacked. It is illegal and IMO
>morally not acceptable. All things that come after the hacking are not
>intesting.
>
>BTW, the lesson I learned here is clear. My next books will be protected like
>Fort Knox :-)
>
>Jeroen
>
>
>>Jeroen,
>>
>>>Besides, the matter I was discussing here in this forum had to do with hacking
>>>the book (your point nr. 5 below). People had hacked the code in which the
>>>Rebel book was written and converted it to their own format. And I find it
>>>fully correct that something should be done about this.
>>
>>A hypothetical question - how would you feel if someone hacked your books, wrote
>>a program that trawled the book comparing it to their own book, figuring out the
>>unique lines and allowed their engine to search and come up with a considered
>>response.  Is this legal?  Would you be happy about it?
>>
>>I should say that I have no intention of doing this!
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Steve



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