This thread is interesting. I wonder if there are any SOCOM II servers being run by people? If so I'd be all over this through my PC. I can find a copy used somewhere for a couple bucks.

I'd love to support "the devs and Sony" but not when the prices are incredibly shitty, and they only offer a handful of titles and they're irrelevant to me personally.

But think of all the money they're missing on people maybe probably pirating all these old PS2 games they aren't selling any more.

Well I'm not sure about servers, but...........

You can find ROMs and PCSX2 online

That's my worry, a lot of work for not much payoff. Probably not many playing, and who knows about hacks and shit.

Not for everyone. I don't have my only "working" PS2 with me because A. The disc reader barely reads the discs, I have to fiddle with it. B. I am a traveling college student. C. I don't have a CRT laying around, nor will I purchase one. The fewer platforms in my possession the better. I plan to have a PS4, and already have a Wii U/Gaming PC/PS3 with me. I don't need another brick to carry with me when I move somewhere else for graduate school. 

And even if it were true that the majority of people who use emulators are thieves, what prevents them from doing the same on their PS2? In fact, the PS2 -like the Wii- was a piracy machine. In developing countries people didn't even buy games for it, they bought copies. The minority is not the majority, and what this article was promoting was people legally playing their already owned PS2 games on the emulator, not piracy.