Quote Originally Posted by osiris4isis View Post
Ok, lets think about this for a moment. Garmin (or any entity) can't claim copyright over something that doesn't belong to them. They didn't write the patcher, and posting the patcher isn't posting ANY Garmin material. Posting any Garmin map (modified via patching) is not allow because the map posted is originally own by them (that is why this forum conformed to that request.)...
What I've marked in red in the above quote quite hits the nail on the head there mate. It's the ppl using the tool who breach the EULA. You own only the device as a chattel, what you (or even someone only in possession of the firmware/software without a device) don't own is the firmware/software/map data used to run a device and you merely have a license to use that stuff subject to the constrains you agreed to as contained in the End User LICENSING Agreement, which by implication you passively agree to when buying and operating a device or merely coming into possession of the firmware/software/map data. Immediately you save a change of one Byte of their data you break that legally enforceable agreement which is subject to local laws in Kansas USA regardless of where it's used in the world. I know you don't post SD BIN file kits or patched RGN files but others do. Someone is going to get adverse attention. That's the warning info i've been given by someone whom i trust. I am not wanting to scare, just forewarn well-meaning ppl trying to help others out of kindness who unfortunately might then be made an example of. The long arm of retribution has already reached from Olathe to Europe in a few cases over map copyright breaches that we know of, so no one is immune. There are probably others around the world who've been pursued too but we aren't aware of. I'll let the EULA do any more talking:
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