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Warning: Author appears to be Canadian. Don't try this in the United States unless you want a five-year prison sentence and a felony record.



Reverse engineering is legal in the US and no circumvention of copyright protection is taking place. This battle has already been fought with ink cartridges.


Reverse engineering for the sake of interoperability is protected under the DMCA.


I mean, it's not like this is Geohot-level reverse engineering.




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