Jochen wrote: > Tlarhices schrieb: > [...] > > > Providing wrappers in the aim to fake the copy protection is also not > > legal. If a copy protection system is faked by something that is not > > intended to have this result (partial implementations, bugs, api > > changes...) and the license is not restricting the use of the copy > > protection with this kind of systems is legal. > > > > you speak about license, but most of them are invalid. You want to try and challenge them in court? I'd like to see that instead of baseless claims. Jochen wrote: > > > Creating (or trying to) create a 1:1 implementation of the software / > > driver / kernel layer used by starforce to detect a real cd and > > having some fake positives and some fake negatives due to errors > > *might* be seen as legal if it complies with the starforce license > > and the one of the product using it. > > > > have you an example of a product with a license forbidding this? You don't need any license examples here - just pick any copyright. Creating something that matches 1 to 1 to the original called copying. And that you can't do on any copyrighted material. Besides you missed the part about DMCA which expressly prohibits *any* circumvention of security measures except for research work.