{"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":"\n\n
\n\"Party!\"\n<\/td>\n\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

Well, it was not necessarily a legal threat, like those notorious “nastygram” cease & desist letters. It was more like a veiled reference to a possible future legal threat. Someone identifying himself as the assistant general counsel for On2<\/a> said that the company took exception to the fact that I was posting decompilations of their Java decoder.<\/p>\n

And just when I was starting to feel that no one cared about my work…\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Naturally, this raises some pressing questions. First and foremost, why was I contacted by the assistant<\/em> general counsel? Why doesn’t my case warrant the attention of the lead\/primary\/head general counsel? Maybe if I went after their latest generation codec, VP7<\/a>, my actions would merit an escalation.<\/p>\n

For the time being, I have decided to not post the Java decompilations on my 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

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… As always, this subject may be revisited. Feel free to email me regarding this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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