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cracks and hacks
But this is project by Team Twiizers, is entirely freeware with no upgrades or registration possible to extend the time limit.
But this is project by Team Twiizers, is entirely freeware with no upgrades or registration possible to extend the time limit.
This is a homebrew project, it is not commercial, no one expects money for it and the limiting version does not help the homebrew community. [[User:Sypher|Sypher]] [some time after Henke37's post], 23 May 2008
This is a homebrew project, it is not commercial, no one expects money for it and the limiting version does not help the homebrew community. [[User:Sypher|Sypher]] [some time after Henke37's post], 23 May 2008
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:While I can't say that I support the idea of toying with the timelimit like this, it is still illegal to hack something, Freeware or not. The copyright laws does not care if you give away your stuff or not, it is still illegal to edits other peoples' works.
:While I can't say that I support the idea of toying with the timelimit like this, it is still illegal to hack something, Freeware or not. The copyright laws does not care if you give away your stuff or not, it is still illegal to edits other peoples' works.
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==== The <del>'Other'</del><ins>Cracked</ins> Homebrew Channel ====
Well, ok. You're both wrong. There's no law against modifying software (the DMCA does not apply here), but there is a law against distributing copyrighted software -- modified or unmodified -- without permission. The fact that it's freely downloadable from here does not constitute permission. However, in the real world, it doesn't matter. We don't care enough to sue.
It's more of a moral issue -- as in, "the right to the integrity of the work" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights]. We spent a lot of time and energy writing the code that went into that Homebrew Channel alpha / preview. People had been begging for it, so we decided it'd be fun to give people "a taste of it" in time for April 1st. That has been discussed to death -- maybe it was a bad idea. Assume, for the sake of argument, that we didn't want people to use it for more than 10 minutes for a specific reason. Does that make it okay to remove that limitation?
Why does a cracked channel deserve a mention? Are we to congratulate the fact that someone figured out how to use a hex editor? There are probably 10 people in the world that figured out how to remove that limitation. Of those, perhaps 2 did it just for curiosity, and then never bothered to tell anyone. (Totally fine!) Five came and asked me if it was okay if they released a cracked version; I told them "no" and they honored our wishes. The other three posted them online; sometimes taking some sort of credit, sometimes not. It's pretty much moot at this point, anyway... [[User:Bushing|Bushing]] 02:14, 23 May 2008 (PDT)
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Since we're all breaking the law and the limitations placed upon by running homebrew, How is it suddenly a problem to 'hack' or edit someone elses homebrew?
Since we're all breaking the law and the limitations placed upon by running homebrew, How is it suddenly a problem to 'hack' or edit someone elses homebrew?
[[User:Sypher|Sypher]] [[User:Sypher|Sypher]] 02:02, 23 May 2008 (PDT)
[[User:Sypher|Sypher]] [[User:Sypher|Sypher]] 02:02, 23 May 2008 (PDT)
:This is an easy one. We are not breaking any laws; we wrote 90% of the code from scratch, and the rest came from BSD-licensed code. Not a single byte of Nintendo code was used. If you want to distribute a "no-limits homebrew channel", then go write your own fucking code -- then you'll be both legally and morally set. [[User:Bushing|Bushing]] 02:14, 23 May 2008 (PDT)