Perhaps someone can clear this up for me and the rest of the/. community. I was under the perception that copyrights protect only the implementation of an idea, not the idea (or method) itself. In that case, while the copyrights to the particular implementation, cphack.exe, have been signed over, there is nothing (aside from more saber rattling and legal motions) that they can do to prevent a new implementation being put together. With the author's step-by-step instructions available, I would imagine it won't be too long before another cphack-like program shows up.
If I am misunderstanding the nature of copyright law, please let me know.
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Perhaps someone can clear this up for me and the rest of the /. community. I was under the perception that copyrights protect only the implementation of an idea, not the idea (or method) itself. In that case, while the copyrights to the particular implementation, cphack.exe, have been signed over, there is nothing (aside from more saber rattling and legal motions) that they can do to prevent a new implementation being put together. With the author's step-by-step instructions available, I would imagine it won't be too long before another cphack-like program shows up.
If I am misunderstanding the nature of copyright law, please let me know.