I do unlock all Garmin map like BlueChart, CityNavigator, Topo and other.
Aslong as they uses the 25 digit unlock code I can create a key for it.
Here are some PC key created with ID=0
BlueChart Americas v9.0 VJSRJ-LBWGC-RLD3L-8LSFF-X8DP4
BlueChart Pacific v9.0 S8DR8-QN2GZ-PQXE4-NQFCC-H9XTG
City Navigator Europe v9 FPA8P-3L5AE-83MKZ-L3C44-YQMBX
City Navigator Europe NT v9 BD76D-KSV73-6C8UP-XCL99-THRMF
hi can you help with key to City Navigator Europe NT v9 with my unit
id?
<br...@rantzau-bech.dk> wrote in message
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Hi i am new on this site
Will it effect the GPS and had any one tried the keys?
Over $400 for european maps
Oops, was that to BUY them ?
"I. Care" <ic...@spamthis.com> wrote in message
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> In article <460eb6ff$0$733$5fc...@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl>,
> wj....@geemail.com says...
> In this case it is stealing a company s product by using illegal keygen
> provided unlock codes to avoid paying for them.
>
> Would you like someone stealing the results of your labor?
> --
> I. Care
> Address fake until the SPAM goes away ;-}
> The keygen is just an simple math formula.
> Its not illegal making numbers using math.
> Sou you say that 1+1=2 is illegal to calculate?
It's not illegal to cover a grave with earth. No matter if you will be
there. Alive.
Using an unlock code that is not for your unit can give you problems.
Although you will be able to see the maps on your PC, if you try to
send maps to a datacrd you may get a nasty surprise.
When the serial number belongs to a different unit the map and program
goes into DEMO mode. If you then select and transfer maps to your
datacrd, the datacard becomes a DEMO card.
Demo cards can not be written to or erased using Mapsourse, so using
fake/stolen/released serial numbers that are not designed for your
unit could render your datacrd useless.
There are a few ways to get the card out of DEMO status, the first of
which is to ask Garmin for their help, which in turn tells them that
you have tried to steal their software.
The GPS may not be effected, but you might be if you have to contact
Garmin about a demo datacard.
Doing that would be a bit silly to say the least.
>
> It is generating a hack code for the sole purpose to violate the Garmin
> license agreement, which requires payment for use. That makes the
> person generating the hack code and the user of the code liable for
> damages.
Any offence caused by the person providing unlock codes would hinge on
whether or not the provider has violated Garmin's copyright on the equations
used to generate them. I doubt that there's a specific provision in British
or American law preventing the actual hacking of Garmin sat-nav units. You
bought it-it's yours to do whatever you wish with it I think is the
principle here.
Just so long as you don't make any illegal copies of the actual coding. In
which case as I've already said is a no-no. It may be possible however
depending on how Garmin have set up the locking feature to hack the firmware
on a sat-nav unit so that it ignores the lockout routines.
(Which was how the early versions of computer DVD-ROM drives were made
region-free over here in Europe. Which is what I did with one of my DVD-ROM
drives. With a firmware update from a Hewlett Packard web archive of all
places.)
The ability to do that would hinge on the greed and frankly the stupidity of
Garmin themselves. Hardwiring the serial number of each unit and somehow
electronically forcing the unit to read the unlock code on the maps you've
uploaded to the chip come what may is maybe what they've done to their
modern product line-up. But I would bet the ranch if I were sufficiently
interested that human nature has gotten the better of them in this case.
And they've chosen the cheap option. And the electronic serial number on
your Garmin unit is just in an erasable form on the firmware and you could
get round it by altering the firmware to ignore the unlock routine in the
first place. And you if you knew what you were doing and if you thought
having several thousand pounds worth of maps on your unit for sweet F.A.
might be a good risk on the balance of things.
(i.e. the possibilty of trashing your gps or falling foul of the law (and
has anybody actually been prosecuted for violating Garmin copyrights)) And,
and this is a very big AND indeed have Garmin themselves been careful in not
violating the copyright of what is most likely several hundred organisations
belonging to a couple of hundred countries from who they have gotten map
details from in the first place. In which case you the end user may be
liable for damages even though you have paid your dues and demands to Garmin
in good faith to their satisfaction....Now how's you like that idea
folks!!??
Damned if you do and maybe damned if you don't hack anyway.
I personally use my Etrex with paper maps, a compass and common sense and
I've no interest whatsoever in doing anything other than just using my i2
and simply chucking it in the bin when it's maps get too old.
The new electronic maps seemed a good idea until I realized how expensive
they are and would make me feel like a jackass if I paid so much for
something that just looks pretty and didn't really need anyway. Also the
screen size and resolution of a paper map is absolutely awesome! Not to
mention the access times and user-frendliness.
>
> Using your logic, copying songs or computer programs and providing them
> to others is just making plastic. Tell that to the RIAA lawyers who
> have made millions from people sued in court.
Like a lot of things in this area your susceptibility to prosecution and
it's penalties depends on the vigour of the opposing lawyers and the
political clout their employers have. Which is the case with pirated SKY TV
cards in the UK. People get sent to jail for pirating SKY sattelite TV
systems but the law largely turns a blind-eye to pirated terrestrial digital
TV cards and chipped cable boxes. Why, I'll tell you why because of the
people behind SKY TV and "The Sun" newspaper and their stranglehold they
have over the British establishment. Don't get me started on that one I warn
ya!;o).
>
> I'm just trying to keep you and others out of trouble. If you refuse to
> heed the warning don't cry when you lose everything you have in court.
> --
> I. Care
> Address fake until the SPAM goes away ;-}
Somehow I don't think you have a potential Garmin-hacker's best interests at
heart. And anyway who would want to trust their lives to a hacked Garmin
unit running hacked Garmin maps......Come to think of it who wants to trust
their lives to a fucking computer anyway..
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Mark Gradwell
aa#1478