Aaron wrote: > For the most part though, it seemed that once upon a time there was > a problem with poachers who just took small exponents from people > who were actually still working on them, and simply ran them on a > faster machine or something. That's the sort of thing that gives > us "respectable" poachers a bad name. :-D
... and that's the sort of thing that happened to me. > Still though, IANAL but it would seem that since these numbers are > public domain, and nobody can be said to have any special claim to > any of them, you probably wouldn't have much legal standing if you > wanted to go after someone who poached a number from you that > turned out to be a prize winning prime. Poaching in GIMPS/PrimeNet isn't a matter of legality; it's a matter of "rules of the game" and "fair play". Richard Woods _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
