Under the U.S. copyright laws, reverse engineering software or hardware you legitimately obtained is perfectly legal, UNLESS the software EULA says "no RE", which is legally enforceable and overrides your fair-use rights, as the courts has repeatedly ruled.
Then what prevents a hardware vendor or a chipmaker from doing the same thing? Why hasn't every chipmaker started to sell chips with EULA attached at this point? "Take a photo and we'll sue you out of existence..."
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@niconiconi How would that even work? How do they ensure customer signs and approves of the EULA before it runs, and if they dont agree how would the chip respond to that. I just dont see how they could do an EULA in a practical sense.
