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Take a look at the DCMA and see what it has to say about encryption
devices. One could argue RDS is an encrypted protocol, which opens up a
whole can of worms thanks to the DCMA. Clearly the correct course of
action was to contact Macromedia in regard to RDS and they have spoken.
-Matt
On Jun 15, 2004, at 12:02 AM, Paul Kenney wrote:
> Matt,
>
> Reverse engineering is not a copyright violation if you simply
> duplicate the
> observed behavior of the protocol using something akin to a packet
> sniffer--don't look at the Java code.��As for future enhancements to
> RDS?
> Well, they actually crippled it for CFMX by removing timestamps for
> individual files so that you can't use DWMX site synchronization with
> it.
> Remember, they have to support the applications that exist that use it
> (Homesite+, DWMX, CF Studio) so I doubt too much that any third-party
> implementation would have too worry about it.��It might not be a
> public
> protocol, but it is a published one--albiet internally.
>
> Paul Kenney
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 916-212-4359
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 2:38 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RDS support (was Re: CFEclipse release - beta
> >
> >
> > > We have been talking about reverse engineering RDS
> > >��(unless macromedia wants to give us the specs :-D), but
> > >��we are not to sure how great of an idea that is. It is
> > >��on the list though.
> > >
> > Since support for RDS has been request for He3, I thought I
> > would share
> > the official response from Macromedia, which is quoted below.
> >
> > "The RDS API is used as a mechanism for different Macromedia
> products
> > to communicate and, as an internal tool, is subject to change
> > from time
> > to time as is needed to best serve our customers.� Reverse
> > engineering
> > it would not only be a violation of copyright, but would not
> > necessarily even work as the protocol continues to evolve with our
> > ongoing efforts at improving our product features for customers."
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
>
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