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vivster said:
Zach808 said:

That's like saying buying groceries is a ripoff because you can just rob the store.  Everything is a ripoff if you're used to getting everything for free.

A more accurate analogy would be self grown food for free. Data multiplication isn't the same as robbery.

No, not even close, and this shouldn't have to be explained to you in 2017, but oh well.  Tomatoes, basil, apples, etc, are not intellectual properties.  You aren't infringing on Green Giant's property and rights by growing your own tomatoes in your backyard instead of buying their product at the grocery store.  That you think copying a developer's digital code is no different than growing your own oranges is baffling. 

"Actually, you're only going to download an emulator and some games for you own amusement. That's OK, right?

No, not really. What you've done here is piracy." 

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/are-game-emulators-legal-1329264