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Originally Posted by Visconti
Your not understanding what Im saying.
EcuTek's license lives on the ECU.
If the ecu gets erased, flash fails, or ecu gets replaced then the license is gone.
If you lose a license the EcuTek log file will show that, if the dealer replaces the ecu then you'll have a work order for proof.
In those cases licenses will be replaced.
If your car is flashed with EcuTek any EcuTek dealer with that software suit aka ProECU BRZ/FRS/GT86 can tune the car.
Since EcuTek has years of custom code development work in the ECU they lock it prevent a few different things.
1. Preventing Dealers from Flashing over the ecu
2. Preventing non-EcuTek products from reading out the ecu and potentially stealing their custom code
3. Preventing non-EcuTek products reading out the ecu and exposing tuners hard work.
This is why I suggest everyone to own their own ecutek cable - this gives them the freedom to do what they want.
EcuTek isn't the only company that does this, and to be honest I wouldn't have put 1/16 of the amount of time into my calibrations if i knew someone could suck it out and look at it.
John
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Please spare me the sermon. I completely understand everything you've said, even the misleading parts.
If I buy a computer and buy an MS Windows license, I can try Linux and then put Windows back on if I don't like Linux. If I can't do that with Ecutek, it's a limitation of Ecutek, not a feature.
After reading what seems like thousands of posts saying "You can flash back to 100% stock", this is the first time I've seen it admitted that if you do Ecutek may refuse to reinstate your license.
Once it's 100% stock, there's no IP to be "stolen". Hence your points 2 and 3 are not relevant. The refusal or inability to restore the license is therefore of no benefit to the tuner, other than to restrict competition.