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Originally Posted by Bravoman
To my thinking, it's perfectly legal. It's a firmware upgrade for a hardware you PURCHASED, and as such, it should be free. For computer hardware I've never seen a company that doesn't distribute firmware upgrades freely.
We could argue on this, but it's pretty pointless, if we take such laws by the wording, all of us are criminals - if my kid draws a BMW logo in kindergarten, that is an infringement of copyright laws.
(Little bastard, next time I'll call the cops...)
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I agree with your point that it's just firmware and it shouldn't matter if we upgrade our systems (since we paid a lot of money for them). However, you just can't use that as a way of justifying the fact that it's still not legal to do so.
I have no problem updating my nav system's firmware with a modified/hacked copy (as most folks here don't), but I don't try to kid myself that what I'm doing is legal either.