Can I pay someone outside the US to reverse engineer software against the license?
<p>I would like to reverse engineer a piece of software.</p>

<p>Assuming the license doesn't approve of it, can I simply pay someone outside the United States to do this?  <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150209/17454529973/uss-naughty-list-countries-whose-intellectual-property-rules-we-dont-like-is-joke-thats-no-longer-funny.shtml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This article alludes to countries that don't follow such laws</a>.</p>

<p>Sure, you can. But if you, from the US, contract with and pay someone outside the US and then use the results of that effort - the reverse-engineered code, either directly in violation of copyright or to find workarounds - within the US, you may not be culpable in a criminal sense (depending on different jurisdictions and trade/IP agreements), but you certainly would be liable in a civil sense.</p>

<p>If the US based software developer <em>(I assume a US-based software company, as you said "outside the US"</em>) tracks you down, they can open a civil action against you for any damages they want to claim, including theft of IP, loss of profits, EULA violations, and on and on, because you posses and are using reverse engineered code. How much money do you have to lose?</p>

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