Critical Vulnerability Discovered in uTorrent

[anon]

It depends on where you live. It can range from totally allowed, to only allowed for private use as you mentioned, or always forbidden.
This is why some EULAs mention that should your local laws confict with what the document states ("for example: reverse engineering is always allowed"), you're not allowed to install the program without the author's written consent.

[Logitech]

There was also a guy that reverse engineered creative drivers to make them work on vista.
He released it and it became quite popular and so was asking if people would donate him money so he could buy cards and then reverse engineer it.
Creative sued him, because he reverse engineered there product and then spread it.
The guy didn't get sued because he received some money for it reverse engineering.
Now the guy is still allowed to reverse engineer it so it can work on other platforms except one sound series(don't know witch exactly).

[Aurion]

nah,I don't think that if a company wants to sue some one,then I will fail due to far places or different cultures,as long as you have that mentioned in your policy then it's OK with ya to take your revenge from someone who already faked your products (wethere reverse engineering or even fake manufacture it)

[anon]

And he didn't even do it for profit, he just asked for money to be able to buy more SFX cards and continue hacking the drivers for everyone.
If I were Creative, I would have even asked if it was OK to host his drivers in the official website instead of trying to disrupt his efforts
Well, at least now he's allowed to continue his work with certain card series.

[Aurion]

well,but if you asked for authorization tho you won't take the green light easily,instead just expand your playground wisely among different forums/hosts just to prove that you already did something good for them

[anon]

And even if they say no, the app/driver would have already been widely spread...
RemoveWGA and Microsoft spring to mind

[Aurion]

that's the point tho just to toss your inventions over the BIG net in order to get some extra nice credits