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Subject: Re: Is it legal to give my serial number to another person?

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 19:01:53 05/02/05

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On May 02, 2005 at 12:35:34, Uri Blass wrote:

>Somebody told me that he had problem to connect to playchess because playchess
>asked him a serial number(note that playing in playchess is supposed to be free
>for people from Israel).
>
>I suggested him to register in a different name.
>I also told him that I had a case when it happened to me and I gave my serial
>number.
>
>He asked me if I can give him my serial number.
>I replied that I am afraid that it is illegal to do it but another moderator in
>the israeli forum claims that it is legal.
>
>I am interested to know if I am allowed to give my serial number and if not then
>based on what rule I am not allowed to do it.
>
>In the fritz8 manual I find that I can register 3 accounts with the serial
>number but I do not find a claim that I am not allowed to give it to other
>people.
>
>Uri

The very first people who bought Fritz 7 were lucky. Everyone who registered
with Playchess back then received lifetime membership to Playchess. Later on
Chessbase realised they'd been too generous, and they only give one year's
membership with the serial numbers in their products. I thought they might go
back on their word and my Playchess membership would expire, but no, it's still
valid after all these years. But I'm a regular Chessbase customer, and every new
engine I buy has a new serial number with a year's membership that I'll never
need. Would Chessbase object to me giving away or even selling my unused serial
numbers?



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