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sc94597 on 09 April 2016
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gabzjmm23 said:
sc94597 said:

Console emulation is 100% legal in the United States as long as it doesn't distribute proprietary software (like a bios.)  Nintendo recently took down YouTube videos of a fan-made Twilight Princess HD texture pack/mod. Trust me, if they could get rid of Dolphin (and a plethora of other emulators) they would. Also, it is perfectly legal to copy a disc for archival purposes, and it is almost impossible to prove that the copy isn't being used for archival purposes (as one can always say their disc broke and they're playing their backup.) 

Piracy originally meant theft (old time pirates were on ships stealing from mercantile corporations.) Copying something you purchased is not theft. 

selling other copies coming from the original is piracy.  I agree, if you copy your original one, its fine as long as you didn't redistribute it for your own gain. which the black market have done to the industry.  the emulators are the software copy of that console, if it way back old, I also done it.  but as much as possible I'm buying the original stuff and the console itself.  

I don't disagree with that sharing copies in which a contract was made that it shall not be shared in that manner upon its purchase is piracy. It obviously is. But it seems we are in agreement that the act of copying isn't piracy. 

Emulators are not software copies of the console. They are independent things that work on independent hardware to run the same software the console has. If you knew anything about the software development of an emulator, it is basically a collection of compilers and interpreters that allow you to run a game that was designed to run on a different platform to run on your platform. That is not a copy of the original hardware. The exception is when they use the original bios to do it.