"Probably illegal since we have the best government money can buy. (DMCA)

Even if the "Digital Monstrosities and Corruption Act" doesn't stifle this, then "PROTECT Imaginary Property, Promote Intellectual Monopoly, and other purposes" one probably will. It turns the user into a criminal when they try to make their property work better than the manufacturer (like Sony or Microsoft or Apple) wants it to. In Sony's case, this is even more of an insult because it criminalizes a user for restoring features that it was advertised to have in the first place."