crazymikie wrote:First off, with the ability to modify your own ECU, I (and I think Colby stated this before) hope to see people start to learn more as they have tools readily available to them. Instead of just pirating other peoples' work, you could do your own tuning and get better results.
Also, running a tune that wasn't made for your car (a la EcuTek) may actually cause problems. There are always variations car to car and running a tune that is too aggressive may not work so well on your car.
Those were both me. As to the copyright of rom images, we are in a gray area here. Subaru could claim IP, but already sold us the image. Cobb could claim IP on the changes. However, reverse engineering is legal. That is how Cobb got there knowledge. Posting them for purposes of knowledge is protected. But when people start flashing the custom images, or worse yet, make a clone Access ECU to get the cheaper Access Port... Now they have a case. And if someone gets a strong case, a lot of stuff can be shut down through intimidation. After all, who of us can afford to fight a real legal battle?
For a solution, could we null the first few bytes of boot code? That way we are making the code unusable for any purpose other than study...