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Comment by direwolf20

24 days ago

It's illegal.

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NoiseBert69  23 days ago

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/24/oj/eng

Directive 2009/24/EC, Article 5 + Article 6

Under special circumstances it's legal within the EU do do this.

And removing a freaking old copy protection dongle to allow emulation of the software you legally are allowed to use falls under this.

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