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

Author: Earl Castillo

Date: 09:36:44 05/03/05

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On May 02, 2005 at 22:01:53, Mike Hood wrote:

>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?

Well if you believe it is legal then I welcome your generosity.  You could email
me one.

Cheers! :)




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