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Zkuq on 26 August 2017
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Cerebralbore101 said:
Zkuq said:

1. Thanks! Looks like too much reading to get a firm idea of whether the decision was sound or not, but I think I got a general idea of the case.

2. I guess I should have elaborated in the first place instead of assuming you'd understand what I meant. Technically my argument wasn't what you say it is, it just seems that way because of my poor expression. My bad.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for your answer to which part of emulators violates which copyrighted property, because I can't find any.

They violate the copyright on the bios code, by using it. 

They're not distributing it though. The user must provide it. Technically emulators aren't even dependent on actual firmware code; anything that provides similar functionality will most likely do. Thus the whole situation reduces to whether copyright (or rather, fair use, it seems) applies to APIs, to which the answer is no (see Oracle vs. Google). As far as my sense of justice is concerned, that is exactly the right decision. I don't know if there's any exceptions to this, but at least PCSX2 and RPCS3 work that way, and I would imagine others do too to avoid problems with copyright laws.