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Originally Posted by dave_p
TheOfficeMaven - you are really doing my head in with this copyright crap!! I pay £50K for a bloody car and expect an up to date operating system on the sat nav. It's free. BMW make the money on the Nav disk and big money at that.
My car is in at the dealers tomorrow and I am going to get the V27 CD from a mate who works there - I'll post it somewhere for the world to see. People may download it free of charge. WTF there is some f***er on ebay selling V26 for £14.99 + postage - and guess what? BMW don't give a f***.
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That's great! I'm glad that my posts are making folks think about this at least.
As I've mentioned, I have no problem with it at all (and I sleep just fine at night too).
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ONLY reason I mentioned any of this is because I don't like the way that Ace is jumping on anyone who mentions anything at all about the nav map data discs (and I could care less about those being "shared" as well). I just want him (and others) to recognize that there's no difference between the two from a legal perspective.
You/we may feel more comfortable ripping off the nav firmware (because as you've mentioned, BMW doesn't directly charge for it - although you do indeed pay for it in the long run though with the extraordinary price they charge us all for their very outdated nav systems), but truth be told, they are both copyrighted material and it's still wrong to do so (no matter how you want to look at it).
A nice example I can think of is iTunes... That's free software (although you are paying for it in the purchase price of your iPod), but if you think that Apple would sit back and let folks hack it up and then re-distribute it, you've got another thing coming. Hell Apple's all over my back right now for this very thing (well close anyway). We're just lucky that BMW doesn't seem to mind is all.
Again, I'm okay with all of this (in fact I quite enjoy it all). I just want folks to know the truth and not walk through life with blinders on is all.
DVD/CD map data disc or nav firmware update disc... It's all the same. If the sysops choose not to promote anything to do with the map data discs, that's fine. But please don't let other forum members chastise folks for posting about them. Let the sysops deal with it.