That is legal.

They bought it.

They own it.

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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson

Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:18 PM

To: profox@leafe.com

Subject: Re: [NF] Reverse Engineering . Legality

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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Jeff Johnson

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On 07/09/2013 04:09 PM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote:

> I would call it stealing, but I hate thieves

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of G Gambill

> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:05 PM

> To: ProFoxTech List

> 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

>

> --

> Success builds confidence. Failure builds knowledge.

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