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Decompiling Windows is punishable by law.

EULAs are not laws

That’s not entirely clear, actually. Like the other comment says, the CFAA has been used to criminalize violations of EULAs in the past and the courts have been split on that idea: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/violating-terms-use-is...

Violating a EULA shouldn’t be a crime but it’s not always that clear cut.

We're talking about EULAs, but your article and the Swartz case concern Terms of Use, which are related but different. Terms of Use concern access to someone else's computer system, hence why overzealous lawyers and prosecutors have tried to expand the CFAA to cover them.

EULAs concern what an end user can do with a piece of software on their own system or systems they control. I don't see how this intersects the CFAA at all.

Aren't EULAs are enforced by the CFAA? Isn't that why Aaron Schwartz is no longer with us?

Which law?

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