I dislike this ruling, because: 1. It affirms the legal right of people or abstract entities to prevent you from copying information - that is, to have the sta

I dislike this ruling, because: 1. It affirms the legal right of people or abstract entities to prevent you from copying information - that is, to have the state punish you for copying information from one page to another or from one file to another. This is immoral, anti-social. 2. It affirms the legal right to prevent you from creating modified, adapted, combined or partial versions of a piece of software or text, when you have a copy of the entire original. 3. It only allows decompilation by someone who has paid for the right to hold a copy of a program, and then only for the purpose of getting the program to work properly. Now, you could say "but that's EU law" - and while that's true, but it doesn't make it any better. People should face no negative consequences for making copies of things, whether exact or modified.