You must hate Nike

You answered your own question… “I chose earbuds from NOTHIHG because according to reviews they are really good for the money.”

The price for them is not just the money…

I love to see free speech absolutism being so unshakable.

Because you are a kid and you don’t know but are pretending to be an adult. Nice try!

Even then you can still have someone read the source and write a spec for a second programmer to write a library. The programmer never saw the source code but it was still useful. Still legal to do this. If someone dumped original source into the projector could be similarly checked for duplication without breaking the law.