RE: [Plug] DVD software

["Nicolai Rosen" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Trade secrets are only protected from exposure by those who are let in on 
them. If an employee of Real had exposed the secret, then that person would 
be subject to prosecution, but if somebody not a party to the secret 
discovered it indpendently (as happened), then they can legally use it.

> > It's legal in Norway where it was done and in the US where it
> > was legally  imported. It's a trade secret, and not copywrited or 
> patented
> info.
>
> Well, trade secrets are also protected by law. I would suspect - altho 
> don't
> know for sure - that importing trade secrets of another firm is illegal.
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