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Comment by norman784

10 hours ago

I don't know about California, but AFAIK reverse engineering is legal, but breaking DRM protection isn't, so what companies did was to put DRM in their software, hence the reverse engineering became illegal.

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MobiusHorizons  9 hours ago

yep, that is what I meant by the DMCA, but I should probably have been more clear.

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