Witness depositions, records, this sort of stuff.
Don't try to dismiss laws as being senseless. They are still laws, and
they will still be enforced against you if you step on the wrong toes,
and whether you think they are senseless or not will not mean *a damn
thing* to the people whose
-On [2221 08:00], Daniel C. Sobral ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, it was wrt to Playstation, Nintendo, Sega or something like that.
M... I thinking it was probably wrt to SEGA, because there was also
a trademark dispute related to a small string. :-) An american company
tried to get a
Marco van de Voort wrote:
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The case centered on the fact that _copies_ of the disassembled object
code had been made, to enable the reverse engineering.
If I have the drivers and disassemble them "real-time" directly from the
files (dlls, etc) and view the 'source' on the screen
Marco van de Voort wrote:
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If I have the drivers and disassemble them "real-time" directly from the
files (dlls, etc) and view the 'source' on the screen what is the
difference between this and viewing the 'source' on the printer? and how
can you recognise the exact
I've heard nothing about that.
Was this done in relation to the whole controversy about the DVD decrypt
software?
No, it was wrt to Playstation, Nintendo, Sega or something like that.
M... I thinking it was probably wrt to SEGA, because there was also
a trademark dispute related
Afaik the only way to circumvent this is, (and this is a wild
guess, I'm not a lawyer)
is if the r-e is done within an organisation. (e.g. GNU), and
all users donate a penny
to GNU to become a member. And members may use the driver.
Does buying a FreeBSD cdrom count as becoming a
Marco van de Voort wrote:
They lost on a lower instance, but have just won on a higher instance
under the merit of "fair use", since they had no legal alternative to
obtain the specifications to the console (other than engaging in a
contract deemed unacceptable). Unfortunately, the link
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
hi *
this might be a little offtopic...
clueless mode
i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio
chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744
soundcards. no response. i mailed again.
Me tooo...
luigi
i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio
...
please hit me with your suggestions, since i am starting to get very
I have had more-or-less the same experience. I did get a response which
completely misunderstood what I was asking and
-On [2220 14:14], Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio
chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744
soundcards. no response. i mailed
jeroen, could you give us some more details on that law, perhaps some
pointers to documents - i could have our law department check that out
/k
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 04:04:00PM +0100:
-On [2220 14:14], Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun,
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
Well Doug,
you're in the UK, so part of the European Community.
And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are
now legally clean of action due to the law that you may
disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
Well Doug,
you're in the UK, so part of the European Community.
And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are
now legally clean of action due to the law that you may
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
Well Doug,
you're in the UK, so part of the European Community.
And since you requested i
"Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote:
with my ymf744 it's a little different... things get vey tricky if you want
to change a laptop's embedded audio chipset ;-)
anyway, vaio n505x has a neomagic256av chipset onboard, i wonder why the
sony boys implement a second chip for the audio stuff if the
Many people have made this request. The following is what I remember of
it. Notice, though, that...
* I found the original link on the secret irc channel.
* I'm under the impression that it was Asmodai who posted the link. Now,
it was Asmodai who just said this is the EU law, so maybe the case I
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