Spankey said:
100% corect. however, you have not bought the software. you have bought the right to use the Software according to the terms laid out and accepted by you when you handed the money over and fired up the software. all the 'owners' of the games who have paid up however many dollars from a store to get the disks have not bought the software. They've bought a licence to use it, and that licence is subject to various terms and conditions, exactly like the OS software on the PS3. It would be a completely different story if the OS software or any software for that matter was released as open source, bit it isn't, and even the use of open source software is subject to certain terms and conditions. If you went to Sony, the devs or whoerver owns the IP and actually bought the full rights to the game, it wouldn't cost you a measly $50 or whatever, the cost could run into the millions. Perhaps then you could reverse engineer to your hearts content |
Like I said, the whole "your licensing it, not buying it" is complete BS and an attempt to get around fair use. It should be struck down by a judge with any sense. If I want to reverse engineer it, modify it, add to it, I should be able to do that. If I want to show other owners what I've done, I should be able to do that too.
If someone uses what I've done to make illegal copies or to do anything else illegal, then they should be held liable. This is the way that consumer law has always worked. This is what these companies are trying to change with the DMCA. It should have been struck down a long time ago.
