Thread: New problems with GPS-Power?

Originally Posted by Grizzzly

Piracy is the engine of progress because it based on reverse engineering! Garmin is a very closed company for user convenience. Even if you want to change unknown word in text of menu you do not have any chance to get Garmin official help!
I remember the time when Russian user did not have opportunity to use the one of letters in keyboard on Nuvi 1xxx. Garmin fixed this issue at one year. Only piracy sites could to help user because piracy is not trivial operation in compare with official soft usually. This forum was the leader! There was not bla-bla-bla and links. Only wise guidance took place. So bad or good experience took place for founders and advanced user. If you search for not being caught you must go to Garmin official forum and bla-bla-bla there. But you do not know what is Garmin device obviously! Caty knew it at the level of a deity! I was surprised that woman is more advanced than you for example...

Your post show lack of understanding and common sense. Your jibberish nonsense started in Garmin and you're trying to spread it here. I see from your vast experiences in your replied/posts (and your joined date) that you are indeed "king of the hill." But hill of what? This is TomTom section so stick to discussing TomTom topics (which I doubt you know very much; I would say much less than your "vast" knowledge of Garmin *sic*) The trouble started coming when there was massive amount of maps (not changed/cracked) that was being posted (some even before publicly released/sold.) Even though the maps were not changed, they are copyrighted. It's the meta file* which are the key (without them the maps are worthless) But that doesn't matter since according to copyright LAW, you can't post them without consent. Tools (made by reverse engineering) such as extracting/building voices are available. While the maker give permission to share, they are in gray area since they actually modified copyright materials. This is one reason why I don't share my tools.

* Meta files are created by TomTom on TomTom unit so they are also subject to TomTom copyright law and can't be shared