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Cerebralbore101 on 12 October 2017
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VGPolyglot said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

The problem with that argument is that the majority of gun owners in america don't use them to kill people. If most gun owners were running around killing people then banning guns would make perfect sense. And to be honest we should ban certain types of guns, just like we should ban certian types of emulation. Nobody needs a machine gun to hunt deer with, and likewise there's no need to make an emulator for Wii U a mere two and a half years after the console launched. Smoking has been banned in certain public places, and driving drunk is illegal. See how the law doesn't allow people to do specific things, when those things are applicable? And no, I never said that anybody that supports emulation supports piracy, so your analogy fails there too. But you don't understand the difference between "all emulators are pirates!", and "most people who emulate current gen console games are pirates, never paying for the software"

And how do you want to enforce it? You want to send a whole bunch of people who use emulators to jail? While we're at it, why not send every single person who has pirated anything to jail! Like the prisons aren't already overcrowded as is...

Legally it's pretty much unenforcable, unless we want to shut down the internet. But the least we could do is ban talk of emulation of games that are on store shelves, on this message board. But the mods don't care if a game gets stolen or not. Since 30% to 10% of people emulating BotW or Persona 5 paid for a disc, they want to look the other way. When most people who loiter on a certain street corner are selling drugs, the cops don't just go "oh well, a small minority of them are legit so let's ignore the whole thing". They make a point to patrol the area more, and do everything they can to get the drug dealers out of their neighborhood. They make stake outs and do something about it. Now I realize that the mods aren't cops, and that they have no bussiness arresting people, but at the very least they should ban talk of certain games in emulation threads. They should be a nuisance to anybody that is just using the thread as a cover for piracy. 

The mods on these forums are like a police officer that thinks all drugs should be legal, and doesn't bother to enforce the law, because of it. "Oh, I know meth is illegal, but I believe in personal freedom and those methheads haven't hurt anybody yet, so I'm not going to arrest them for anything." "Oh, I know piracy is illegal, and the vast majority of people emulating BotW, or Persona 5, stole the game, but I'm going to let threads talking about it stay open." 

The mods putting rules in an "Official Emulation thread" is like the cops sitting in front of a crackhouse in order to protect the people inside from being shot at, by vigilantes. In reality neither one is upholding the law, and unwittingly being a massive help to anybody that wants to break the law. If either one did what they were supposed to do, there wouldn't be people derailing threads, or pumping bullets into a crackhouse, out of revenge.