US copyright law still explicitly permits copying programs you lawfully acquired for backup and use. Frankly it’s not clear to me how that interacts with the a

US copyright law still explicitly permits copying programs you lawfully acquired for backup and use. Frankly it’s not clear to me how that interacts with the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA, but most software licenses are based on an outright lie: that you need a license to load the program into memory and execute it after having legally acquired the code.