Is emulating acceptable?

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Pemalite said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

How is it not true?  Its available but it is still stealing.  Trademarks are protected under the government for a certain amount of time until it is reestablished. Unless its done outside of the US its an outlawed version of a game. An outlawed copy in otherwords.

It's not stealing. You aren't necessarily duplicating or pirating anything if you have the original media on-hand.
You can drop a Playstation 2 DVD into your DVD drive... Fire up the Emulator... And you are emulating away.
No reproduction of any licensed or copyrighted software required.

I did touch upon all that in my post if you cared to read it.

I highly suggest you look at the legal precedents that were set with Bleem. Sony tried to sue Bleem and thoroughly lost their court case on every single account.

Ergo. Emulation is legal. The more you know.

Emulation by itself is perfectly legal. Downloading ROMs or copying them from the cartridges/discs however is illegal in most countries unless the copyright holder shares/sells them online, which is extremly rare.