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norman784 74 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Bill to block publishers from killing online games...

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.

MobiusHorizons 74 days ago [–]

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

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