Re: OT Reverse Engineering … Legality

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Author: Alan Dayley
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Subject: Re: OT Reverse Engineering … Legality
The contract and/or license involved in the relationship will have a LOT of
effect on whether or not a crime was committed in the scenario described.

A lawyer or two needs to be involved in this situation.

Alan



On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Stephen <> wrote:

> Over 10k I think is a felony... Or is it 5?
> On Jul 9, 2013 4:25 PM, "Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr." <
> > wrote:
>
>> Would that not be called Pirating? I believe a value of $45k (> $1k)
>> would be equivalent to a felony.
>>
>> Gilbert
>>
>> On 7/9/2013 4:11 PM, G Gambill wrote:
>>
>> 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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