OT Reverse Engineering … Legality

[Derek Trotter]

First I want to say I agree with Rusty that this is a lawyer's dream.

Keith Smith already posted text  from the legislature saying the 
software is valuable enough for this to qualify as a class 2 felony.

You didn't say who did this, but if it's a friend or relative, I'd 
suggest you advise them to get rid of the software immediately. Why?  
Because somebody else could call the business software alliance, turn 
them in and get a big reward.

If it's somebody you don't particularly like, you can be the one to make 
the call and get the reward.

Just my 2 cents worth.  That's actually $1.98 including tax.

On 07/09/2013 04:11 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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