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DIY Stompboxes => Digital & DSP => Topic started by: paguitarist on January 15, 2007, 09:21:11 AM

Title: Could this be possible?
Post by: paguitarist on January 15, 2007, 09:21:11 AM
This may sound stupid but, I'm new to digital and thought it would be interesting to clone some digital stuff, now here is my big question, can I copy the DSP chips, such as the ones found in a digital delay and all those other digital effects? What I'm saying is, you can write to them, so I hope it would be possible to somehow copy existing ones.

thanks
Title: Re: Could this be possible?
Post by: slacker on January 15, 2007, 12:14:23 PM
You possibly could copy the DSP code, although they're probably protected against copying in some way. The code will almost certainly be copyrighted though so to do so would be violating copyright laws.
Title: Re: Could this be possible?
Post by: The Tone God on January 15, 2007, 01:48:13 PM
All modern microprocessors have security features to protect the software from tampering. I highly doubt that any manufacturer will let unprotected ICs out in the wild.

Also if you are in the U.S. you have to not only deal with copyright and theft legal issues but also the DMCA.

No copying for you. ;)

Andrew
Title: Re: Could this be possible?
Post by: RaceDriver205 on January 27, 2007, 09:21:01 PM
Whats the DMCA?
Title: Re: Could this be possible?
Post by: The Tone God on January 28, 2007, 02:20:10 AM
Quote from: RaceDriver205 on January 27, 2007, 09:21:01 PM
Whats the DMCA?

Wikipedia and Goodle are your friends:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA

Andrew
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