This sounds at least immoral and possibly illegal, akin to circumventing a software product's
dongle or copy protection. See the CB/FAQ/Content Policy/
Software and Media Piracy. No public discussion of reverse engineering shall be permitted on
ControlBooth.
Derek
I beg to differ. As far as I know, there is no license or agreement with the CK gear that you agree not to reverse engineer it. ( If so this entire argument is moot). If there is no such agreement this would not be illegal or imorral in my view.
Now does it make any sense from a
practical point of view? I don't see how. I could not use the gear in any comercial environment ( no longer
UL listed etc). I could not be sure that I had not made some error in my design of the hardware I would have to
build to make it work that would destroy the CK units (Can you imagine what CK's response would be when you told them the
unit quit working, but you did not use their data enabler?). Data enablers are not that expensive and the cost to research and
build a replacement would be much greater than the cost of just buying a
unit - unless you were doing out of curiosity.
I don't see how this post is about Media Piracy. It's a little like having an ancient analog
dimmer that I don't know the control
voltage or
polarity for. I want to
build a
console for it so I need to know the
protocol. How do I find the
protocol? ( With a multimeter and scope as LuxMax says) I don't see how asking that would be violation of policy.