Re: ! CD-ROM PhoneBook(UK). HELP NEEDED !

chaminda@jcdcrs4.jobcorps.org wrote: > > isn't this a copyright violation ?? > > Chaminda peries > > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 mark.c@virgin.net wrote: > > } Hi folks, > } > } I NEED HELP with reversing the encryption tables of a BRITISH CD-ROM > } PHONE DIRECTORY DATABASE. ie. I need to extract the business & > } residential records (all 17 million of them) preferably in ASCII format. Lists of data in and of themselves are not copyrightable. However, without getting into that argument (since a list of data can be compiled in a copyrightable way), if the user of the data purchases the license to the CD and merely wants to import the data into their own database to use their own search tools and programs to access it, IMO that shouldn't be a problem, as the publisher gets their money. Regarding the reverse engineering, I would be interested to know what it would take to extract that data. Think of integrating that with an Informix database for marketing purposes! Tim