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In the US, it is probably[^1] illegal under the DMCA, however, exceptions to that law are determined every ?2? years by the library of congress.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-users-libraria...

> The exemptions we requested—ripping DVDs and Blurays for making fair use remixes and analysis; preserving video games and running multiplayer servers after publishers have abandoned them; jailbreaking cell phones, tablets, and other portable computing devices to run third party software; and security research and modification and repairs on cars—have each been accepted, subject to some important caveats.

[^1]: I am not a lawyer.




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