[cyphar]

There is a separate carve-out for breaking DRM for the purposes of "interoperability"[1], which (as far as I understand) is generally believed to include emulators.

I also disagree more broadly with the initial moral indignation over a perceived violation of copyright law -- legality and morality are two different things, copyright law is meant to be a balanced trade-off between the public and creators but modern copyright laws are a travesty. What ever happened to the hacker ethos behind DeCSS and the anti-"illegal numbers" movement?

[1]: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/cons...

[charcircuit]

>will be done for the sole purpose of achieving interoperability

It's for solely achieving interoperability. It only covers the development of the emulator. Using it to get a picture for explaining what a game is in the blog post is not DRM being broken for solely achieving interoperability.

>What ever happened to the hacker ethos behind DeCSS and the anti-"illegal numbers" movement?

In practice the idea that you can't break laws if you are doing things via a computer is fundamentally flawed.