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Subject: Question for Johan de Koning. - "Deadking" legality question

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 15:08:14 09/07/03

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On September 07, 2003 at 17:17:31, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On September 07, 2003 at 17:06:18, George Jones wrote:
>
>>On September 07, 2003 at 16:53:35, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>On September 07, 2003 at 14:28:18, George Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 07, 2003 at 14:19:25, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 07, 2003 at 14:13:22, Afzal Siddique wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On September 07, 2003 at 13:29:38, George Jones wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There was a very simple technique for using chessmaster in fritz renaming the
>>>>>>>king engine to deadking, anyone have a link to these instructions? I forgot how
>>>>>>>to do it and no longer have the link, thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hello.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>well i dont have its site but i have all the contents of deadking zipped.. soo
>>>>>>if u want it u jus gimme a mail at afzalsiddique@hotmail.com and i will reply
>>>>>>back with the zipped file
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Afzal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     We all should not support tools that are determined to crack
>>>>>     commercial software.
>>>>>     Kurt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Excuse me, I am a Registered Owner of CM9000.
>>>
>>>Even as a registered user, if you are using deadking, you are using illegal
>>>software which is  forbidden topic here based on the charter.  Period - end of
>>>story.  No more posts about deadking in this forum.  You may post deadking
>>>question  at r.g.c.c as that forum is unmoderated.
>>>
>>>Michael Byrne
>>>Moderator
>>
>>
>>  I didn't know that deadking was illegal or pirated software, did you ever once
>>think that as a possiblility before you "Rushed to Judgement"
>>although frankly I don't feel guilty one bit I Paid my 30 dollars for the
>>product so you and whoever else can go to hell period!!
>
>Why such nerves? He didn't accuse you for something. He said only that
>discussions about pirated software is a forbidden topic in this forum.
>Although i disagree that deadking is something illegal. If you purchased
>CM9000 then i think it's legal to use deadking.
>Anyway we should define pirated/illegal software, because perhaps Mike's
>definition might be different from mine.

My definition is quite simple.  If the software violates the licenisng
agreement, it is illegal.  I have read the UBI Soft licensing agreement and like
most agreements, distrubuting licensed modified code to others (registered or
not registered ) users is prohibited.  That is exactly what deadking is, it is a
distributution of modified code that was governed by the licensing agreement
which explicitly forbade that.

But perhaps, I am wrong -- so I will pose the question to the author of the "The
King" and one of our esteemed members  of CCC, Johan de Koning, about the
legality of "deadking".

Johan - are your views of the legality of the "deadking" - modified "the king"
engine code that allows the user to use the "The King" engine in the Fritz
enviroment without ever requiring the OPK code?

Best,

Michael



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