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I believe you're mistaken but I can't can't cite case law… it's my understanding that 'cracking' the code for the purpose of "making a program easier to use for a legitimate user" falls under the protection of copyright law… basically, you would be using someone else's protected code to create a program of your own based completely on the work that belongs to someone else. Once you have done that and copied it, you have broken not only the license (by making more than one backup) but also the copyright law.