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Can someone explain to me how this is legal?

I understand LG may not want to enforce IP laws, but something illegal is illegal regardless of perpetrators being punished or not.

And to me this seems quite obviously to be a violation of international IP laws. Like I'm all for right to repair and whatnot but I don't even think the LG TOS/EULA allows you to do this? Correct me if I'm wrong.



What, more exactly, is illegal? Reverse engineering is not illegal (in no jurisdiction that I know of). And neither being in violation of a EULA or a TOS.


If the EULA explicitly states you are not allowed to reverse-engineer the product, which is so common I've never seen one that doesn't say so (I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying I haven't see it) then... doing so is a breach of the terms and therefore illegal by definition.


It's... debatable. EULA's are not enforceable usually. Just because something is mentioned in an EULA it does not mean it's the law.


Apple is suing NSO because NSO employees created accounts violating iCloud's EULA.




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