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Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle by direwolf20 on Sunday February 01, 2026 @11:50PM (#46852536)
It's illegal.
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Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle by NoiseBert69 on Monday February 02, 2026 @01:43PM (#46859589)
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/24/oj/eng

Directive 2009/24/EC, Article 5 + Article 6

Under special circumstances it's legal within the EU do do this.

And removing a freaking old copy protection dongle to allow emulation of the software you legally are allowed to use falls under this.

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