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@Confusion - it depends on the purpose. if the DRM is to lock me into vendor A's platform then I am free to do anything I want to remove the DRM to enable me to use vendor B's - the great ICL / IBM plug compatible wars
In that strange continent east of New York it's not only permissible - it's illegal to prohibit. Reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is explicitly part of the EU convention on software
