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Zkuq on 26 August 2017
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Cerebralbore101 said:
Zkuq said:

1. It's legal until judged otherwise, and I don't think there's any room for debate about this. As far as I know, there haven't even been any attempts to change the situation recently, which hints at the situation not being changeable under the current legislation. If console manufacturers could sue emulator devs and expect to win, they definitely would. You can argue about whether emulation should be illegal, but there's no question about whether it is right now.

2. Since you already attempted to counter my argument, clearly you must already know this was not my argument. Why did you choose to present this argument at all then?

1. So Slavery was legal despite clear evidence to the contrary just because judges deemed it so? Is that how the law works now? 

2. What are you talking about? 

1. I'm not familiar enough with your history to be able to answer to this properly. If you can provide be me a short elaboration, I'll gladly look into it however. Anyway, if a judge's judgement on a matter isn't the official interpretation of the law and thus effectively the law, I don't know what is. Whether that's the correct interpretation of the law might be questionable of course. Maybe you should have a system for fixing judges' errors, but I'd say that's an entirely different issue. Getting back to the actual emulator topic though: Which copyrighted property do you think emulators are violating?

2. I'm not stupid. I know very well something being illegal has nothing to do with its existence. Laws need enforcement to be effective. Anyway, your arguments 1 and 2 are seemingly separate and seemingly counter-arguments to two different arguments, while I only had one argument. Thus, it seemed odd that you seemed to be countering two different arguments when I only had one.