Author: David Mitchell
Date: 13:47:59 07/08/04
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On July 08, 2004 at 14:02:03, David Dahlem wrote: >On July 08, 2004 at 13:47:12, Charles Roberson wrote: > >> >> Its doable. But in the context of your statemnet, it is illegal. > >Would it be illegal to purchase an electronic chessboard, read the program, and >only put the program on your own PC? > >Regards >Dave Sounds like a grey area. :) If your intent and actual use, could be shown to be totally for your own personal use, I would hazard a guess you would be OK. As long as you didn't try to sell, modify, or establish some copyright over the program, or somehow try to skirt the copyright (say by calling it now, your own program), or royalty issues. As for the "how to", I'd ask that in an Electrical Engineering newsgroup or forum. I'm not an EE, but I would guess you would have to completely map out the (e)eprom with the program on it, right down to the last transistor, and only then could you try to put it's software onto a PC. Seems very laborious and expensive, at first glance. Maybe they've come up with a way to automate this reverse engineering process. Besides, don't you just love the smell of a good for loop, early in the morning?? :) Dave
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