If I buy a chair, I can take measurements if I want to add a pillow to it. Reverse engineering should be perfectly legal. Want to watch a 4k movie with a custom subtitle track in VLC player in a particular obscure language that your deaf grandma understands and that isn't part of the subtitles offered by your streaming provider? Well you legally can't because in order to do that you first need to remove the DRM. If you but a John Deere Tractor, you only license the software on it and whenever they choose they can charge as much as they want to service it whenever they want because you legally can't do anything yourself because that would be reverse engineering. If I buy a game on Steam, for example, you technically "subscribe" to it, according to their "subscriber agreement". You're merely "licensing" it in some cases you acquire an indefinite license that can, however, be revoked at any time.
The problem is that companies say that you're not really "buying" anything.
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