The way it'd work is that you'd essentially need a few things. A decker or Cybertech who can blank out an unused skillsoft, some kind of mind-scanning device (Like what they have at Sense/Net, probably an older-model version brain scanner than what they have), and device to encode brain patterns into the skillsoft.
The way it would function is thus-
You have a choom who is very talented at something! You decide that you want to have part of this person's skill.
You first select your skillsoft! Bronzes, Silvers, Golds and Platinums still have caps on how much they can actually let you learn, but since we're removing the safety limits, the potential cap is probably a little higher than the normal soft would allow… DEPENDING on the relative skill of the person, and the cybertech. Lower skilled people being scanned in means worse quality chips, which is split between the actual source material (the person being scanned) and the skill of the encoding (the cybertech copying the information into the soft).
Here's an idea of a potential in-game way this could be utilized-
Steve UMC is a grand master brawler, and NLM wants to make money! They decide to start selling UMC-Branded 'Steve UMC' Skillsofts that claim to let people 'throw hands just like Steve UMC!' They take Steve UMC to their licensed Cybertech, and do a brain scan. Since Steve UMC is very talented at throwing punches there's an abundance of skill, meaning that it's very easy for John Cybertech to fill up a Bronze past a normal Bronze capacity limit, almost to the level of a Silver, but not quite, because it's the elevated skill of Steve UMC, put onto lower-quality jailbroken hardware.
NLM proceeds to sell 'JOHN UMC BRAWLING SKILLSOFTS' and make a huge profit, and people who use the John UMC brawling skillsoft find that they're able to throw a punch better than people just using regular brawling softs!
---
Linda Flymaster is being asked an odd request. Johnny Drivealot is being asked to pilot an AV instead of his usual limo for a client, so Johnny Drivealot is calling in a favor. They head to a ghetto setup in the Mix, where a bored looking teen straps on a pair of goggles onto Linda's head and starts messing with an old Silver 'Programming' skillsoft they don't need anymore. After jailbreaking it and wiping it, they start encoding Linda onto it. The cybertech probably still needed that old Soft, and later on when Johnny slots it, he finds that it's actually inferior to a regular silver Piloting soft! He's dead-gripping the pilot stick throughout the entire drive, and only through copious good luck and a lot of very slow turns does he not crash the AV, though his clients are unimpressed with the incredible slowness...
---
This would also allow skills that aren't sold in stores or easily found to be encoded as well, stuff like 'thievery' and 'stealth'. Adopt your favorite dips kleptomatic tendancies! Let people roleplay quirks from the personalized softs they've loaded. Make the jailbroken softs degrade, slowly, over time, occasionally meaning that they need to be tuned up by Cybertechs the same way that weapons need to be tuned up weaponstechs!
