| Cerebralbore101 said: 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. In reality neither one is upholding the law, and unwittingly being a massive help to anybody that wants to break the law. |
The mods are doing their task by banning links to pirated copies of games, so you don't have to worry about that. What you're proposing is akin to making it illegal to talk about illegal drugs.
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