I agree, but what do you think about this? There is a medical hardware
company that sold their devices with software. The software company
went out of business and a lot of people legally own the hardware and
software but it is unusable because they can't get installation codes.
What would you call it if someone reverse engineered the installation
codes so the users could use their equipment?
Jeff
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On 07/09/2013 04:09 PM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
I would call it stealing, but I hate thieves
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Subject: [NF] Reverse Engineering . Legality
What do you call it (technical name) when a company installs $45,000 worth
of evaluation software (with a dysfunctional security program to restrict
functionality and a termination routine that renders the program totally
non-functional after a set date.) on their computer and reverse engineers
the software and removes the the evaluation restrictions, without paying for
it?
Anyone know if this would this be considered a felony?
TIA
George
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