To answer the point that I think you were actually making, reverse engineering in the EU is covered by EU Directive 2009/24. This allows reverse-engineering for

To answer the point that I think you were actually making, reverse engineering in the EU is covered by EU Directive 2009/24. This allows reverse-engineering for interoperability purposes, and (possibly in a more limited way?) also for the purposes of understanding the operation of a program. https://vidstromlabs.com/blog/the-legal-boundaries-of-reverse-engineering-in-the-eu/ https://vidstromlabs.com/blog/the-legal-boundaries-of-revers...