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h.sie · 09-03-10, 02:10 AM

Statical repair-time bugfix to sh3.exe is easy. But sharing that exe file is illegal.

Question: Is it illegal to provide a tool that makes fixing a software bug very easy? It does no more than that. no disabling of copyright protection and so on.

Since I won't have starforce on my PC, I am not able and willing to patch the starforced version. So a person who wants longer repair times very much (as I do) and does only have the starforced version, will be forced to buy the non-protected software for some cents. So UBI could perhaps also take profit from that.

h.sie

I have to laugh about myself, having problems with legality/illegality and morale because I just fix a bug. On the other hand a well-known big software publisher seems not to have any morale problems to make promises (even promotion videos) and then take much money for a bug collection for which the attribute "alpha version" already is a compliment.

09-03-10, 02:10 AM	#31
h.sie Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2,192 Downloads: 131 Uploads: 0	Statical repair-time bugfix to sh3.exe is easy. But sharing that exe file is illegal. Question: Is it illegal to provide a tool that makes fixing a software bug very easy? It does no more than that. no disabling of copyright protection and so on. Since I won't have starforce on my PC, I am not able and willing to patch the starforced version. So a person who wants longer repair times very much (as I do) and does only have the starforced version, will be forced to buy the non-protected software for some cents. So UBI could perhaps also take profit from that. h.sie I have to laugh about myself, having problems with legality/illegality and morale because I just fix a bug. On the other hand a well-known big software publisher seems not to have any morale problems to make promises (even promotion videos) and then take much money for a bug collection for which the attribute "alpha version" already is a compliment. __________________ My Mediafire page: http://www.mediafire.com/hsie Last edited by h.sie; 09-03-10 at 03:59 AM.