Author: David Dahlem
Date: 14:47:08 07/08/04
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On July 08, 2004 at 16:47:59, David Mitchell wrote: >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 I was just asking out of curiosity, since the statement "it is illegal" was not completely clear. I certainly have no intention to try such things, and certainly have no idea how to do such things. :-) Regards Dave
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