The Electronic Frontier Foundation has talked repeatedly about how the Interoperability exception is significantly weaker in context than it appears. The bigge

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has talked repeatedly about how the Interoperability exception is significantly weaker in context than it appears. The biggest problem, as they summarize it, is that “Any interoperable program you created as a result of the reverse engineering is non-infringing.” Aka, your reverse-engineered DVD player software for Linux cannot break TPMs. Your emulator can’t break TPMs. Etc. It only protects breaking TPMs to develop software that does not break TPMs. Surprise, that’s almost useless. In which case, all it does is say that the Dolphin developers can’t be sued for breaking TPMs to develop Dolphin, at least under the DMCA. But they can still be sued if they distribute any TPM-breaking tools. https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq