[Kharma]

Whoo fellas calm down. I thought this was over. I just have to do with out the pictures. In the from of being legal; I had pictures taken by an amateur photographer, they used some program to give me a slideshow of the pics, the person left town, the slide show only had a disk life of 30 days. I can't find the photographer to get the pictures and just wanted to show them for the holidays. So if asking how to view them was a violation of forum rules I once again apologize.

[Anon23]

Sorry, i thought the forum rules were based on wether it was legal or not. So i though maybe you didnt even have to worry aobut that. And It would broaden ways you can give support. If you wrote that you can't crack, and it's not cracking, you can do more than you thought to give support and have one more situation not to worry about it in general. I thought you would enjoy the thought. 8)

If its not illegal and your rule is based on if its illegal you can, simply, not worry about it, and you can tell anyone who says its illegal they are nuts and correct something people do wrong alot today. Don't worry. i only said it because i thought it would benefit your forum. Sorry!

[brendandonhu]

We still don't know that this was, in fact, piracy. Its entirely possible that the amateur photographer gave Kharma ownership of the photos. If not, Kharma may have fair use rights to access the photos. Its impossible to say whether or not it is "illegal" to do so without knowing half the details. Maybe there's a copyright notice on the photos or file that says who actually owns them.

[~Candy~]

Originally Posted by Kharma

Whoo fellas calm down. I thought this was over. I just have to do with out the pictures. In the from of being legal; I had pictures taken by an amateur photographer, they used some program to give me a slideshow of the pics, the person left town, the slide show only had a disk life of 30 days. I can't find the photographer to get the pictures and just wanted to show them for the holidays. So if asking how to view them was a violation of forum rules I once again apologize.

Kharma, please don't take offense at our latest replies. They weren't directed at you.

I'd be interested in seeing the properties of the .exe. If you right click on it, then go to version, you'll see a company name listed there.

brendan, I don't think the issue was the right to the photos, unless I missed something. I think it was disassembly of an .exe file which could and probably does belong to a corporation.

[JohnWill]

Originally Posted by brendandonhu

We still don't know that this was, in fact, piracy. Its entirely possible that the amateur photographer gave Kharma ownership of the photos. If not, Kharma may have fair use rights to access the photos. Its impossible to say whether or not it is "illegal" to do so without knowing half the details. Maybe there's a copyright notice on the photos or file that says who actually owns them.

That's right, it's impossible to know if it's legal. We also have rules against assisting in hacking activities, which this certainly seems to fall under. Since you don't have a dog in this fight, may I suggest you retire to the sidelines?

[brendandonhu]

If reverse-engineering any file is "hacking", we need to close all threads about resource editors, hex editors, and decompilers. If Kharma does own these photos, how exactly is it hacking to extract them from a file?

[JohnWill]

Originally Posted by Kharma

Whoo fellas calm down. I thought this was over. I just have to do with out the pictures. In the from of being legal; I had pictures taken by an amateur photographer, they used some program to give me a slideshow of the pics, the person left town, the slide show only had a disk life of 30 days. I can't find the photographer to get the pictures and just wanted to show them for the holidays. So if asking how to view them was a violation of forum rules I once again apologize.

What you're asking is certainly not illegal if you really own the rights to the pictures. OTOH, assisting in activities like this helps people that would want to illegally extract copyrighted works, that's the point. I suspect the application that only had a shelf life of 30 days was a trial of some sort, and cracking that would certainly be aginst the forum rules.

BTW, this is over, because I'm going to close the thread, it's purpose has long since been served. I have no issue with you, since as you say, you do have the rights to the pictures. Sorry we couldn't help you this time.

[JohnWill]

Originally Posted by brendandonhu

If reverse-engineering any file is "hacking", we need to close all threads about resource editors, hex editors, and decompilers. If Kharma does own these photos, how exactly is it hacking to extract them from a file?

He obviously doen't own the application that was used to display them and that's the issue. Cracking the application, which is obviously some sort of a trial, is against the forum rules. I asked you once before to butt out, please don't keep trying my patience. You like to push things to the limit, it could be a disappointment if you find you went too far.