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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
monnier@oldbytes.space ("Stefan Monnier") wrote:
@paulasimoes @molly0xfff @pluralistic @ansol Yes, before the digital copyright thingy, reverse-engineering and developing circumvention tools was definitely legal. "Reverse-engineering" just means to investigate how something works. It can be (and usually is) a necessary element to break some DRM locks, but not always, no, tho I guess you could call most other ways as forms of reverse-engineering. Also sometimes breaking DRM requires illegal acts (like going against an NDA or other contract).