[yaseer]

> It's not like OP's situation and access to emulators would have been any different if the decision went Sony's way.

I would respectfully disagree - although it's hard to speculate on alternative histories.

The United States has an outsized impact on the software industry - even for the largest economy in the world (American big-tech dominates the largest companies by market cap).

Preventing or impeding the development of emulation software in the US would definitely impact the rest of the world, simply because fewer people and companies can legally contribute to open-source Emulation software.