Re: Idea For Group Project.

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>>>>Not very legal. There is something in the license agreement about prohibiting
>>>>people from reverse-engineering the protocol.  
>>>I guessed as much. Stupid capitalist software companies :)
>>Scott, you're starting to sound like my Russian buddies! :)
>>....I didn't agree to no steenkin' licence! AFAIK, I can
>>reverse-engineer anything I want! What's illegal about that?...
>I'm not a laywer, but AFAIK it's probably not illegal to write the 
>program, or even give the program away.  But . . .
Yes, that's my point. It not infringement to reverse engineer anything.
What you DO with it later is another issue...

>Is it legal to use the program to save copyrighted audio clips?
>(I really don't know, that's why I'm asking.)
Technically no. If you record something and don't tell anyone, or are doing
it for testing, no one's going to come after you. 

>> >>Also, technically, it would be VERY
>> >>difficult to do with multicast UDP packets...that dosen't mean it wouldn't 
>> >>be fun to try :-)  I might just bust out the sniffer after finals are over...
>> >Ohh, i didnt realize it was UDP, thats rough. This is starting to look
>> >well beyond anything i want to try to tackle.
>> Why?
>
>I can tell you why programming UDP is tougher than TCP.
.... {Real nice explanantion snipp, we've all got this  :)}...

OK, this reads like a real good explanation, but I'm not intimidated by it.
Sounds like a decent group project to me....

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