Might be illegal to break someone else's proprietary software, no matter how abandoned it is.
Try to ask them for source code, with the intention to open-source it. Then you (and maybe others!) can break it whole day long.
Try to ask them for source code, with the intention to open-source it. Then you (and maybe others!) can break it whole day long.
- It's risk for them with basically no upside.
- Someone at their company needs to do a deep-dive into the code and verify that there aren't licensed third-party libraries and possibly remove them. Even companies that genuinely want to open source software that they've acquired may spend a year doing this sort of due diligence.
Oh no!
Anyway
Snark aside, what you do locally on your own PC in your own home is kinda nobody else’s business, especially when you aren’t cracking it to share it with others. Pretty sure all the arguments were already hashed out in the ‘80s when VCR companies tried to block recording television to cassette tapes.
Literally nobody cares.
In order to sue the post author, the software copyright holder must claim some damages. I doubt they will find enough damages to pay legal fees.
Why would VCR companies try to block this?