Interoperable software question (Score 1)

Just as a thought - isn't the software provided by Aibohack providing the user and AIBO owner greater interoperability. Here is an interpretation of the DMCA from http://www.tuxers.net/dmca/dmca-guide.html Subsection (f) grants an exemption permitting reverse engineering to subsections (a) and (b) above, for the extremely narrow purpose of bypassing access controls in a legally obtained computer program in order to study it in order to create a separate, interoperable program. This is certainly a helpful provision, but it only applies to the development of software, not to hardware, and not to the separate circumvention aids which would be needed to restore lost "fair use" or free speech abilities of normal consumers. It might be of some help in the particular case of developing a DVD player for Linux, depending on the interpretation of a number of terms and clauses. ItsDead.