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Pawel, Using copyrighted material as a learning experience falls under the Fair Use law and is legal. This also applies to software, although the software companies would rather you did not know it. Even though the license says that you cannot reverse engineer the product, the law says you can if you are doing it only to gain an understanding of the software's underlying ideas and procedures. DV Magazine's contributing editor Steven Blaise wrote a short article on the subject of copyrights in the November issue. Michael S. Flynn