is emulating piracy?

[snakenobi]

Michael-5 said:

snakenobi said:

TadpoleJackson said:

snakenobi said:

TadpoleJackson said:

snakenobi said:

dolphin is not legal,its on pc

 

psn is legal as sony uses it to sell and play its own games

sony can license where to play or not,a consumer can't

 

thats why ps1 emulator was taken off android

Emulators are completely legal. ROMs aren't. 

That being said, Dolphin is an emulator, there for it is legal. If I download a PS2 emu right now I can play my PS2 games on it legally. 

emulators aren't legal

its just that they aren't so widely used so nobody has made a law agaunst them

 

that way PS1 emulator shouldn't have been taken off the android market

I'm just going to post this link.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386126,00.asp

So to end, emulators aren't illlegal downloading ROMs are 

emulators are illegal if they are used for profiteering

 

you can bend the rules but it will be illegal

 

its like saying i have an 360 and halo but i rip the game disc and play it on my pc

 

but that is just an excuse,that doesn't happen most of the time.

If you own the game, you can play a pirated version all you like. It's called creating a backup, and playing the backup disc. Some game collectors buy games and leave them factory sealed to preserve them, while playing pirated copies.

Doesn't happen often with current gen, but go a generation back and it happens all the time.

 sure that won't be piracy

but thats not really what happens most of the time which is what i was trying to say