Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

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Cerebralbore101 said:

VGPolyglot said:

He's not favouring pirates, in fact he made a rule that you can't link to pirated content.

- No links to illegal content
- No discussion of piracy
- No accusations of piracy
- No debating when it is ok or not ok to use emulation
- Just keep the derailing of the thread with respect to piracy out of it.

The bolded are rules made to silence critics of piracy. So he has one rule against piracy and four rules against people criticizing it. He's clearly favoring pirates. Talk of piracy in emulation threads is relevant, and thus it shouldn't qualify as derailing. 

It's clearly stated that if you want to discuss the legality of piracy and emulation to do so here. The other thread is specifically to discuss emulation itself, not the ethics behind it.