[imtringued]

You're overgeneralizing. A company has a limited amount of employees that are working full time. Meanwhile the millions of people who install ROMs may spend a week tinkering and then it's over for them. The chance that a few thousand of them become interested in making their own ROMs (and therefore become software engineers) will become zero thanks to this law.

[nurettin]

Governments should not enforce international trade agreements on the off-chance that someone somewhere might have an epiphany while installing illegal software? No.

[samus]

The term "illegal" deserves some definition. Arguing that something is forbidden because it is illegal is circular reasoning.

[nurettin]

I would appreciate if you provide a definition of illegal that doesn't amount to "prohibited by law". In this case, the set of laws that are placed in order to protect international trade agreements.