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Cerebralbore101 on 12 October 2017
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vivster said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

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 Copyright laws are outdated and need to be updated anyway.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.

None of that takes away from the fact that copyright infringement is illegal. Your argument was that since digital piracy doesn't deal in physical goods it isn't theft. I countered that with the example that copyright infringement is still theft, even though it doesn't deal in physical goods. 

And the law does apply to personal use. ISPs are required by law to shut down your internet if they discover you are using it to pirate media. Napster was shut down due to contributory infringement. In the same sense, RPCS3 and Cemu should be shut down for contributory infringement. Especially since like Napster, they have made monetary gains by facilitating piracy. 

http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/douglas111.html