Rockwell sound format

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On Sat, 4 Feb 1995, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Peter Bechtold wrote:
> > > > I have no idea how much effort it is to decrypt this sound format 'by
> > > > foreign means' (i.e. without using information by Rockwell), 
> [..]
> > As far as I know, it is possible to get a patent on encryption algorithms,
> > in which case it would be illegal to do such reverse-engineering.
> 
> Well, yes. But I'm fairly sure that it is not patented, since in that case
> it wouldn't do them any harm to make the specs public (they are already by
> patenting them) and charge royalties.
> 
> I don't think they *can* patent it either, since ADPCM is something fairly
> widespread, and they just use some variant of it.
> 
And something new, for Europeans at last. We have a new copyright since 
mid-1993, which allows decompilation for the creation of new programs to 
interface with the existing one, *WITHOUT* asking for permission...

Anybody knew this?? I didn't, until one of my clients presented me with 
exact this situation...

Klaus
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