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Post by Lakro ManiI have not stolen anything.
I do not provide the maps. (The map are copy righted)
The use of the maps is also a license agreement between the map owner
(Garmin) and the user. You have to pay for the license.
Post by Lakro ManiThe keygen is just an simple math formula.
Its not illegal making numbers using math.
Sou you say that 1+1=2 is illegal to calculate?
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It is NOT just making numbers.
You don't believe that and neither does anyone else. If you are so sure
ask the Garmin lawyers if they think it is legal.
Doing that would be a bit silly to say the least.
Post by I. CareIt is generating a hack code for the sole purpose to violate the Garmin
license agreement, which requires payment for use. That makes the
person generating the hack code and the user of the code liable for
damages.
Any offence caused by the person providing unlock codes would hinge on
whether or not the provider has violated Garmin's copyright on the equations
used to generate them. I doubt that there's a specific provision in British
or American law preventing the actual hacking of Garmin sat-nav units. You
bought it-it's yours to do whatever you wish with it I think is the
principle here.
Just so long as you don't make any illegal copies of the actual coding. In
which case as I've already said is a no-no. It may be possible however
depending on how Garmin have set up the locking feature to hack the firmware
on a sat-nav unit so that it ignores the lockout routines.
(Which was how the early versions of computer DVD-ROM drives were made
region-free over here in Europe. Which is what I did with one of my DVD-ROM
drives. With a firmware update from a Hewlett Packard web archive of all
places.)
The ability to do that would hinge on the greed and frankly the stupidity of
Garmin themselves. Hardwiring the serial number of each unit and somehow
electronically forcing the unit to read the unlock code on the maps you've
uploaded to the chip come what may is maybe what they've done to their
modern product line-up. But I would bet the ranch if I were sufficiently
interested that human nature has gotten the better of them in this case.
And they've chosen the cheap option. And the electronic serial number on
your Garmin unit is just in an erasable form on the firmware and you could
get round it by altering the firmware to ignore the unlock routine in the
first place. And you if you knew what you were doing and if you thought
having several thousand pounds worth of maps on your unit for sweet F.A.
might be a good risk on the balance of things.
(i.e. the possibilty of trashing your gps or falling foul of the law (and
has anybody actually been prosecuted for violating Garmin copyrights)) And,
and this is a very big AND indeed have Garmin themselves been careful in not
violating the copyright of what is most likely several hundred organisations
belonging to a couple of hundred countries from who they have gotten map
details from in the first place. In which case you the end user may be
liable for damages even though you have paid your dues and demands to Garmin
in good faith to their satisfaction....Now how's you like that idea
folks!!??
Damned if you do and maybe damned if you don't hack anyway.
I personally use my Etrex with paper maps, a compass and common sense and
I've no interest whatsoever in doing anything other than just using my i2
and simply chucking it in the bin when it's maps get too old.
The new electronic maps seemed a good idea until I realized how expensive
they are and would make me feel like a jackass if I paid so much for
something that just looks pretty and didn't really need anyway. Also the
screen size and resolution of a paper map is absolutely awesome! Not to
mention the access times and user-frendliness.
Post by I. CareUsing your logic, copying songs or computer programs and providing them
to others is just making plastic. Tell that to the RIAA lawyers who
have made millions from people sued in court.
Like a lot of things in this area your susceptibility to prosecution and
it's penalties depends on the vigour of the opposing lawyers and the
political clout their employers have. Which is the case with pirated SKY TV
cards in the UK. People get sent to jail for pirating SKY sattelite TV
systems but the law largely turns a blind-eye to pirated terrestrial digital
TV cards and chipped cable boxes. Why, I'll tell you why because of the
people behind SKY TV and "The Sun" newspaper and their stranglehold they
have over the British establishment. Don't get me started on that one I warn
ya!;o).
Post by I. CareI'm just trying to keep you and others out of trouble. If you refuse to
heed the warning don't cry when you lose everything you have in court.
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I. Care
Address fake until the SPAM goes away ;-}
Somehow I don't think you have a potential Garmin-hacker's best interests at
heart. And anyway who would want to trust their lives to a hacked Garmin
unit running hacked Garmin maps......Come to think of it who wants to trust
their lives to a fucking computer anyway..
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Mark Gradwell
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