SuperNova said:
At least in the US owning the original hardware has nothing to do with it. It is literally how permalite stated. As long as you own a legitimate copy of the CD and you don't make a dump, but have the emulator straight up playing it from the CD (or installing from the CD but not playing it without it being put into the diskdive), you break no copyprotections and are perfectly within your legal rights. What you are referrring to, is specifically about dumping within the purposes of backup copy. The legislation pertaining to that varies drastically between countries. But rule of thumb is: If you break a copyprotection by doing the dump (hint: this applies to most movies and games, but not music cds) then it's illegal. As far as I know, even then you don't have to have owned the original hardware. |
Pemalite said:
Incorrect. This has already been tested in court with the Bleem! vs Sony case. |
This. When you buy some SW, in no way its license can force you to buy something else, although the HW platform owner won't give you any help to allow you to run that SW on anything different from original HW or its own official emulators ("virtual consoles" are just that). Issues about HW and its firmware are different: SW DEVELOPERS MUST follow HW platform owners rules to develop and sell officially licensed SW for it (they strike deals for the licenses, so they explicitly accept stricter rules than just the IP laws), while emulators devs have different rules and laws to obey to, they CANNOT rip the HW's proprietary firmware to make their emulators, while reverse engineering of HW and FW is a different matter, allowed in some countries, allowed with restrictions in others and forbidden in others. Another completely different field is jailbroken original HW, in this case in most countries it's illegal to modify the first party original FW, while it's legal to completely remove it and replace it with third party one not containing IP belonging to the HW and original FW maker. In their turn, end users of original HW can mod with legal third party FW, not containing parts of the original one, the HW they BOUGHT, but they CANNOT do it on HW they're using in commodate.