You refuted nothing. You in the past called criminal the same action (circumvention) on another copyrighted work. I was just applying your logic to the situation. What I want to know is what is different about the two situations that makes one criminal/illegal and the other not.
you've endlessly lied in the face of case history that your foreign hacker heroes couldn't have possibly been criminal
Lie. I said your claim to them being criminal was unsupported since there was 1) no evidence of financial gain, and 2) they weren't distributing OS X itself in quantities to qualify for criminal prosecution (that's the "180 day rule" that is our law that you keep mocking).
LOL don't worry, your attempted BS is perfectly clear, you've been defending your foreign hacker heroes that distributed hacks for months insisting they couldn't have been criminal, despite criminal case history and letters from Apple threatening criminal prosecution, but you now want to claim personal backups somehow ARE criminal, instead. It's obviously just a failed ploy on your behalf to yet again attempt to excuse your foreign hacker heroes that create and distribute illegal hacks by bluring the lines between what is criminal and what is not. Obviously not working, you exposed your evil intent long ago by trying to cite the "180 day rule" on behalf of the foreign criminals, making up lies about the US DoD using software written by foreign hackers, calling Apple's letter threatening criminal prosecution of your heroes "BS", etc etc etc.