I am your lawyer and this is legal advice. I think a decent (legal or moral) argument can be made either way here. The circumvention of TPMs is allowed in the

I am your lawyer and this is legal advice. I think a decent (legal or moral) argument can be made either way here. The circumvention of TPMs is allowed in the case that they restrict you from exercising your rights and you cannot obtain a remedy from the rightholder. Furthermore it might be useful to look at the Computer Programs Directive. I quote a Wikipedia summary here: > The legal owner of a program is assumed to have a licence to create any copies necessary to use the program and to alter the program within its intended purpose (e.g. for error correction). The legal owner may also make a back-up copy for his or her personal use. The program may also be decompiled if this is necessary to ensure it operates with another program or device (Art. 6), but the results of the decompilation may not be used for any other purpose without infringing the copyright in the program. For an implementation of this directive in English you can look at e.g. the Irish one at [0], particularly regulations 5, 6 and 7. It's also worth bearing in mind that EUIPO is a "network of experts and specialist stakeholders" who aren't necessarily writing from the perspective of consumer rights. https://web.archive.org/web/20050324110430/http://www.wipo.int:80/clea/docs_new/en/ie/ie019en.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050324110430/http://www.wipo.i...