Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

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SvennoJ said:

Pemalite said:

Virtual Machines and Emulation aren't as different as you think.
Many Virtual Machines emulate various pieces of hardware.

Virtual Machines can run brand new pirated games.
In-fact, nVidia has Virtual GPU Passthrough to allow said games to work. - http://www.nvidia.com/object/dedicated-gpus.html

Virtual Machines can be bundled with anything you want.

False. Games are still being Made for DOS and thus DOSBox. The Homebrew and indie scene is alive and well.

Plus Gog.com will often repackage allot of older games with DOSBox and sell them to you that way.

Plus because Gog.com games are DRM free, they are ripe for people to copy.

Also, some emulators do support playing a game directly from the optical Disk.

Well, when I see threads promoting HZD running in a virtual machine on hardware it was not intended to run on, I'll be in that thread :p
Same for DOSBox in that case. Yet DOSBox really isn't the same thing as nobody is selling DOS games to run solely on original DOS machines.

I just find it shameful that Cemu 'trusts' their users not to use pirated software, yet apparently doesn't trust them with their own software, so they add DRM to basically sell the full emulator to patrons. At least VMWare locks out OSX and maybe other things.

If it weren't for dosbox the only option to play dos games would be to run it in DOS. So you've just given a very strong argument FOR emulation, as it greatly benefits IP owners.