On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:23:46PM +0100, Christoph Frick wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:35:11PM +0100, Kai Blin wrote: > > > No argument on the US part. I'm still convinced that by EU laws, > > you're allowed to crack an app you bought in order to make it run on > > your software. As this hasn't been tested in court yet, though, I'll > > concede. > > IANAL, but since 2008 germany adopted a law from a EU proposal (maybe > other countries added it before), that disallows circumventing copy > protections at all. so in theory your statement is not true any longer > for the EU.
Last time I read that part of the german law my understanding was that the part about copy prevention doesn't apply to software. Jan
