Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

[Cerebralbore101]

vivster said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

Both are tools that can be used for theft, and in the case of BotW, and Persona 5, they are overwhelmingly being used for theft. A PC comes along somewhere in the process. The code for custom firmware to crack a modern console is written on a PC. Same thing goes for mod chips. 

Digital piracy is not theft. Nothing is taking away from the producer. A pirate would never have paid for it anyway so there is literally no loss to the producer.

In that case, copyright infringement is not theft, since nothing physical was taken away from the copyright holder. But we still have copyright laws for a reason, and we still enforce them.