Enforcing your rights under your contract by patching out some cert validation checks seems legal to me. Maybe not in places with anti-circumvention laws, but elsewhere it seems fine.

It would be amusingly ironic if someone used Copilot to do it.

Pretty sure this is beyond copilots abilities... It's really bad at any kind of binary analysis.

It is absolutely great at binary analysis, as long as you give it a decompiler.

Really? It's been pretty good with a Ghidra MCP at signature scanning for extremely niche undocumented software.