On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
As far as I know India doesn't have any equivalent law to the DMCA, so there is nothing illegal in what you're doing. Since you're reverse engineering the protocol and not the application itself you should be
I'm not sure they can even do that. There is no EULA that comes up before the dialer installation in any case. I also checked their terms of use and they too do not menion anything about a dialer.
I'd recommend filing a ticket about the faulty Sify dialler in any case, so that you're doubly protected -- if Sify is not able to fix the problem in a reasonable amount of time you can sue them instead of the other way around :)
Already did, second time yesterday morning on an STD call to Chennai since their local call center IVR was malfunctioning. They were supposed to revert within 12 hours but no response yet. Also had sent an email regarding this, so I figured I'm amply covered on that end.
On the other hand, I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, just my interpretation of the situation. If you do get arrested I'll not be held responsible, though I promise to send you pizzas in your cell :)
Great, an incentive to do this then ;)
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Yes siddhesh you can reverse engineer & go ahead with the thing that you are trying to do. Best of luck but do keep in mind that after you are done you cant sell it to anyone but yes you can share it with anyone that you wish to just like linux.