[Rebel1]

Interesting Box, and I suspect you have a huge chance of getting your money back.

In my limited knowledge of IP ownership or indeed how this act of tuning actually comes about I suspect that none of these tuners can claim an IP ownership of any tunes at all.

My reasons are these and please correct me if I'm totally off base here.

For any GM engine to fire and run initially then a generic tune as supplied by GM has to be used or a tune based upon a generic tune.

Once the engine is running the tuner uses tools ie. HP tuners or EFI Llive, to (I'll use the term) "hack" into the GM OS and tune to make changes to the parameters.

In other words the tuner has not written any code nor compiled that code into a running application. He has merely hacked into a generic tune and changed some tables.

Given the requirement that all tunes include as a starting point a generic tune then have these tuners paid GM for the generic tune included in their product. (ie tune)

Am I correct in my assumptions and if so does the very act of selling a hacked product and claiming it to be your own be somewhat illegal.