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SvennoJ on 03 May 2017
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mutantsushi said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
Playing BoTW on your PC when you don't own a physical copy is theft plain and simple.

nice... Except, you know... not being true.  If it were, copyright violations would be prosecuted as criminal theft.
And they aren't... Because they don't remove the original object from owner's possession.
Copyright violation is not a natural crime, it is due to laws written at behest of powerful interests, taking away natural right to copy.
The entire field is driven by lawyers who know what they are doing, so it is 100% intentional when they misinform the public to get them to "believe in" law.
So you're engaged in propagating some lies, a moral crime, for benefit of those who get laws written to their benefit.
And if you notice, your own and many other posters here use COPYRIGHTED IMAGES as their avatars.
Why don't you troll every single thread over that issue?  That being an ACTUAL, PRESENT copyright violation right here on the forum,
as opposed to discussing in text a phenomenon which may in some cases involve a coyright violation...
Which in many countries, is not actually a crime of the person using it, only of anybody distributing and making money of actual violation.
I mean, the powerful corporations who make money off this would like to be omni-potent, but actual court cases in many countries
prevent them from doing so, the actual law does not support the corporate-copyright-monopoly-rentierism you blindly worship.

Actually mine is from a painting my wife made

which is incidentally a great analogy to how emulators are a legal grey area
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-ethics-of-emulation-how-creators-the-community-and-the-law-view-console-emulators/

Copyright protection extends only to the expression of an idea—not to the underlying idea itself. That is the difference between patents and copyrights. This distinction—commonly referred to as the 'idea/expression dichotomy'—is codified in § 102(b) of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C.S. § 102(b), which provides that in no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."

Actually it's not, that painting is copyright infringement, still the expression of an idea. (Emulators are fine as long as they reverse engineer everything and don't directly copy any code, hence pcsx2 coms without the bios)

I own 4 copies of the movie though :/

Anyway pirating 1 picture from a movie or game for an avatar vs the whole movie or game... The former falls under fair use so far. It's not been directly challenged in court yet. However https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com,_Inc. Google won in a fair use case for using thumbnails in their image search. While earlier Sony lost in 2000 against Bleem, against using copyrighted playstation game images. Avatars of copyrighted images are fine.

Piracy however is not legal.