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sc94597 on 10 April 2016
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gabzjmm23 said:
sc94597 said:

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?

Yes, since Fair Use was instituted they (and everybody else) do have this right. This was a big battle between the music industry and people ripping their music to play on their PC (or MP3 player) in the early 2000's. What is a media player, but a sort of emulator (you are not playing the music on the intended hardware)? Since then, the interpretation was applied to video games and movies (assuming there is no special encryption/you use a certain method to rip.)  

http://www.hbtlj.org/v11p1/KENNETHLONG.pdf

Like I said, if it were illegal Nintendo (and Sony) would target the producers of the emulators. But they don't, and the emulator producers can even take legal action against others who use their code without permission.