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Re:I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019) by sneak on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:32PM (#25854247)
Reverse engineering publicly available proprietary software distributed as freeware to reimplement free software replacements is not illegal.
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Re:I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019) by tbodt on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:17AM (#25855716)
Can you help convince me of this?

Also I'd encourage you to contact the owners of the repositories listed in Google's DMCA notice against the Widevine cryptographic key and help them file a counter-notice. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-0...

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