You disagree because you don't understand what's a DRM, what's put in place as anti-piracy measure and what's not.
Yeah, your interpretation of author's intent will surely be taken as something objective in court. I didn't want to argue about what you or I think is cracking or DRM, yet you still keep redirecting discussion to irrelevant direction. Let's proceed github fork experiment I mentioned earlier, since you don't accept any verbal argument or even docs.
It's not illegal when it's not done for commercial use. Again, 99% of the mods that exist would be illegal if that was the case, since most mods are created without the dev's permission.
Again, if you read attached docs you'll see: "without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work". Mods are "derivative works", which would allow produce owner to sue modders. Some companies can specify license agreement, but in this game case, there is only verbal permission from author, so he have all rights to shut down modding at any moment if he went crazy
It is fair use since it's a personal use case. Same goes for decrypting game assets. They do not economically impact anything as you're accessing content that's publicly made available for free or you already have the license to.
So if I crack app myself for personal use, it's "fair use". I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous statement. As well as that avoiding paying for a product or extra features doesn't economically impacts owner. You can try to say to product owner that you've modified his code for personal use and send him your real address to prove your point. I'll be surprised
A big company can take down any mods they want, doesn't matter if the mod """harms""" them or not.
Agreed
I look at things from a moral standpoint.
I don't see reason in discussing morals. It's pretty subjective thing. You won't have legal problems for misinterpreting morals
Because it isn't a form of "theft" at all, reason why it comes down to copyright issue and not theft.
I agree, it's not a theft
Okay, I tried to convince you that modifying code is illegal and considered piracy (yes, even for personal use). I provided references to prove my point. I mentioned that it's not about morals. I think I did all I could to clarify the term, so I'm out. I suggest to agree to disagree if that was not enough for you