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This was tried by apple. https://www.engadget.com/apple-drops-its-lawsuit-against-a-m...

Emulation software isn’t wholly original as it needs firmware and software from the device so emulated. An iPhone emulator with no bootrom and no iOS isn’t very useful.

An open source client for an API need not include any non-original works.

They are though. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38534247

After digging in more I believe that is only done in that proof of concept. If that's the case then it's too bad they didn't go back and update the POC to avoid the need for the binary.

For the app it is probably just done server side.

There is a very useful iPhone emulator with no bootrom and no iOS: https://touchhle.org/

It targets games, so manages to be useful without having to emulate or re-implement the majority of the OS.

Depends on whether you consider a private key an "original work": https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush/blob/main/albert.py#L16

The situation seems very similar to the AACS key leak back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

Note that a key cannot be copyrighted, but it can be considered a circumvention tool for access controls that protect other copyrighted works.

What are the potential legal and ethical ramifications for developers and users in using such emulation methods or accessing private APIs?

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