Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

[vivster]

Cerebralbore101 said:

vivster said:

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. 

Copyright laws count only if you monetize copyrighted content. And then there is still fair use where you are allowed to take copyright content and use it to make money. Copyright laws are outdated and need to be updated anyway.

The laws don't apply to strictly personal use.