Author: John Merlino
Date: 15:20:29 01/11/04
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On January 11, 2004 at 17:02:27, Mathieu Pagé wrote: >On January 11, 2004 at 15:08:10, Darren Rushton wrote: > >> >>>I think it is illegal to hack engines to make them play in an UI that is not is >>>own. >>> >>>If it is the case and that the author (in this case M. de Koning and/or Ubisoft) >>>did not allow this practice, i think this kind of massage is a violation of the >>>charter and should not be permitted. >>> >>>Of course if the author of the engine do not bother there is no problem and that >>>kind of topics can be discussed here. >>> >>>Just my 2 cents. >>> >>>Mathieu >> >> >>Hmmm, thanks, but that wasn't exactly helpful - I followed Frank Quisinsky's >>advice to obtain the opk number. So, by your reasoning, everyone who has done >>this has violated UBIsoft's terms and conditions... > >Yes, I think, but i'm not sure. > >Why else did they put that opk protection ? > >again i'm not sure, maybe they don't bother and in that case I think there is no >problem to discuss of that here. > >Mathieu The OPK protection is written such that you MUST have the Chessmaster program to get the number, and the number is only good on YOUR computer until it is rebooted. Therefore, there is no problem with using your copy of the program to get the number, then using the engine in a different GUI. jm
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