the-pi-guy said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
Emulating current gen games on a PC is piracy, unless you own the system it was meant for, and a legitimate a copy of the game. 90% of people playing BotW or Odyssey on PC have neither.
Buying a Switch is part of the cost of playing Nintendo games. Just like having a PS+ account is part of the cost of playing the online portion of a PS4 game. If I were to find a way to circumvent the PS+ requirement of playing the online portion of a PS4 game, I'd be partially pirating the game. Partially pirating = pirating. So people that play a Switch game on PC, when they don't actually own a Switch are pirating the game.
Yes, there are a few people out there that legitimately just want to play the game at higher frames and resolution. Yes, those people actually own a Switch, and a legit copy of the game. But let's not kid ourselves here. The Switch emulation scene is the piracy scene. Anybody that says otherwise is simply being willfully ignorant, or is misinformed.
And before anybody says anything about game preservation and the like, I'd like to remind them that there's absolutely no reason to try to "preserve" a game on a current gen system. I'd like to also remind them that emulation of last gen games is perfectly fine, especially games that are ten years old or older, and/or hard to find.
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Legitimate copy is required yes. You don't need to own the system it was meant for. Legally speaking, emulators aren't piracy. You just need a legal way to dump a legal copy of the game and there aren't any piracy issues.
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The law and/or a judge can say that 2+2 = 5. Doesn't make it so.
Most lawmakers are completely ignorant about how technology from 2000 works, let alone modern tech. Most judges are either just as ignorant, or incompetent partisan political appointees. At least that's how it is here in the USA.
Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 23 January 2020
