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http://multimedia.cx/eggs/category/reverse-engineering/ [en] Topics On Multimedia Technology and Reverse Engineering
Both I and the IEEE beg to differ. You might want to read this link http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/reverse.html and http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Code/Title_17/Chapter_9/Sections_906_and_907 about reverse engineering , you will find it is indeed legal to reverse anything in the USA as long as its done for education and is not to be done for profit as well as to make a profit.
What does the "Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984" ("mask work;" semiconductor chip product) have to do with computer software/DMCA?
It has more to do with you being allowed to take apart anything (including a computer program) for educational purposes. The distinction comes from intent, if you're taking a program apart just to take the data, then it could be construed as a violation of the DMCA. If you're taking a program apart to learn how it works, and possibly to apply the same principle to another program (or to get your own data back from an overzealous program) you're doing it for educational purposes. Now this is only relevant if what you're taking apart is considered a protection schema. In this case it's taking apart a compression algorithm, with no encryption, only to show it's there. Nothing that's being used to protect anything is being bypassed, so it's totally in the clear.

legal aspects

Find french law articles about interoperability
http://www.chillingeffects.org/reverse/faq.cgi
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