You keep hammering on point c but nobody in this thread has disagreed about the sequencing. a -> that is the clear implication of one of the above comments, ie

You keep hammering on point c but nobody in this thread has disagreed about the sequencing. a -> that is the clear implication of one of the above comments, ie. if it was a legsl use of the contract in the US that somehow will shield them from dma violation, but dma supersedes contracts