Fun Topic. Which are better for Gaming? PC's or Consoles?

[Manos]

Deneidez said:

Manos said:

I choose the finnish law because your profile says that you live in Finland.

But what you said there is not a case of intended use. That program (BIOS) was meant to be used with the console in question. The interesting part about that is how you interpret "to make it work". If you have a working console, you don't need to make a copy to make it work. ;) I don't like that kind of laws at all, but still it is the law.

The only part you are spot on is the EULA. If it conflicts with your local law then it is invalid.

The jkorpela site is not about copying stuff that you own, it is about your right to copy stuff to your personal use. It does not matter if you own it or rent it.

Well, in emulator it does exactly the same thing it does in console. Only thing that changes is hardware. And if you may not do that, running for example windows on mac would be illegal. Same goes with windows programs that you run on OS X. :)

 

Heres jkorpelas text about copying programs that you do own,

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/tekoik/3.1.html

"Oikeus tehdä varmuuskopio, lakikielellä "varmuuskappale", perustuu suoraan lakiin, ja säädös on 25j §:n 5. momentin mukaan pakottava, eli tätä oikeutta rajoittava sopimusehto on tehoton."

You may copy it for private use and you cannot restrict it anyway with any agreements.

Say again? How is running windows on mac illegal? Windows is not meant to be run on a specific platform unlike console BIOS.

The part you picked from jkorpelas site is about backup copies. We are talking about copies for personal use here. There is a difference between a backup and a copy you use.

Anyway this is now just offtopic. Even if you were right, you would have to own a console to play those games legally on pc. Don't know about you, but I'd rather play them on that console. Better safe than sorry.