Re: OT Reverse Engineering … Legality

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Author: Stephen
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Subject: Re: OT Reverse Engineering … Legality
I have to second this. At this point a lawyer should be involved.
On Jul 9, 2013 9:31 PM, "Alan Dayley" <> wrote:

> 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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