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gabzjmm23 on 10 April 2016
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sc94597 said:
gabzjmm23 said:

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. 

does those owners/developers of the emulator have the right to run the proprietary games that was created/developed/published by game developers though?