Azuren said:
Now most piracy still happens on PC via emulators. Gasp.
The majority of PS3 piracy happens on hacked PS3s, but PS3s they haven't passed that firmware milestone of being locked out are few and far in between. Everyone else uses emulators because they're free and the type of gamer to adamantly refuse a console will likely have a beefy PC.
Emulators are tools of piracy, just as much as hardware modification. It's not even close to be debatable. |
I don't care what they are tools for, that falacy has already been pointed out several times. Anything can be a tool for something illegal.
Personally I don't even much care about piracy. In plenty of the world there are no legal ways to buy the software to begin with and I see no moral objection why an industrious enough person shouldn't do the best he/she can to enjoy the medium that so many of us take for granted.
The reason for me to not pirate games is not because it's illegal. I don't pirate games because it's more convenient for me to play legit copies of them. Because I can afford this cost for my favourite hobby and because I love having my digital library available anytime, anywhere as long as I have internet.
Now we could have an actual conversation if we were discussing piracy itself and the moral case for/against it. In the case of emulators there's no leg to stand in trying to make those illegal.
Nintendo keeps using emulators on their consoles to play their legacy games. Sega is doing the same now on mobile. If you're not making the case it should also be illegal for them, then it shouldn't be illegal at all.
