{"id":82,"date":"2005-05-26T16:34:46","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T22:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=82"},"modified":"2006-03-26T19:14:34","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T03:14:34","slug":"legal-threat-00001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/legal-threat-00001\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Threat #00001"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/confetti.gif\" alt=\"Party!\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\nDo you have any idea how long I have been involved in multimedia hacking and reverse engineering? About 5 years now. All that while, folks have warned me sternly, and constantly, that this type of work would get me sued to death. I am pleased to announce that today I received my first legal threat. I feel that my work has finally been validated!<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was not necessarily a legal threat, like those notorious &#8220;nastygram&#8221; cease &#038; desist letters. It was more like a veiled reference to a possible future legal threat. Someone identifying himself as the assistant general counsel for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.on2.com\">On2<\/a> said that the company took exception to the fact that I was posting decompilations of their Java decoder.<\/p>\n<p>And just when I was starting to feel that no one cared about my work&#8230;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Naturally, this raises some pressing questions. First and foremost, why was I contacted by the <em>assistant<\/em> general counsel? Why doesn&#8217;t my case warrant the attention of the lead\/primary\/head general counsel? Maybe if I went after their latest generation codec, <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/index.php?p=40\">VP7<\/a>, my actions would merit an escalation.<\/p>\n<p>For the time being, I have decided to not post the Java decompilations on my <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/pre\/\">Practical Reverse Engineering<\/a> site. This entire site is partially an experiment to test where the limits are. Looks like we found one such limit.<\/p>\n<p>I never had a compelling reason to research legal options surrounding these RE activities. Maybe it is time to start. But I am just so lazy&#8230; As always, this subject may be revisited. Feel free to email me regarding this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First legal threat! Well, sort of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalethical","category-on2duck","category-reverse-engineering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}