If you can find me a good gaming laptop in Australia for a decent price, I'll be interested in it.

Because I've already played these games if i play them again id like to track my progress with trophies. You didn't pay the devs anything you're promoting corrupted practices this is the very reason games get delayed on pc is because of theft. They wait until the money is made on the consoles then release it later for the delay race.

The article is disingenuous, you need the PS2 Bios, which can only be legally obtained via a dump from the PS2, which he fails to mention.

You can't just plop in a disc and start playing.

That nasty habit of ignoring the links, I do enjoy how he tiptoed around the issue though. 

There is no copyright protection scheme to bypass when ripping a bios from the PS2 or ripping a rom off the disc of a PS2 game (like I said, you don't even need to rip the iso, you can play from your DVD player.) There is no DRM on these contents, and therefore DMCA doesn't apply. The emulator doesn't bypass any DRM to play the games.   

And what would be the point of an archival copy if you can't use it? That is bullshit.  Fair-use allows people to use their copies for non-distributive activites. It has been the case for years when people were ripping songs of their CD's to play on their MP3 players. It wasn't until the companies starting putting DRM's on the content that they could take legal action. Before that, they couldn't do anything about it. 

http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Can you source the underlined? I couldn't find that anywhere in the DMCA. In fact it says:

Section 1201 divides technological measures into two categories: measures that prevent unauthorized access to a copyrighted work and measures that prevent The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 “Copying” is used in this context as a short-hand for the exercise of any of the exclus- 2 ive rights of an author under section 106 of the Copyright Act. Consequently, a technological measure that prevents unauthorized distribution or public performance of a work would fall in this second category. Copyright Office Summary December 1998 Page 4 unauthorized copying of a copyrighted work. Making or selling devices or services that 2 are used to circumvent either category of technological measure is prohibited in certain circumstances, described below. As to the act of circumvention in itself, the provision prohibits circumventing the first category of technological measures, but not the second.

This distinction was employed to assure that the public will have the continued ability to make fair use of copyrighted works. Since copying of a work may be a fair use under appropriate circumstances, section 1201 does not prohibit the act of circumventing a technological measure that prevents copying. By contrast, since the fair use doctrine is not a defense to the act of gaining unauthorized access to a work, the act of circumventing a technological measure in order to gain access is prohibited. Section 1201 proscribes devices or services that fall within any one of the following three categories: ! they are primarily designed or produced to circumvent; ! they have only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent; or ! they are marketed for use in circumventing. 

It says nothing about original intent. 

Ok, seriously guys, drop that legal BS. I'm all for playing PS2 titles on PS4, I even bought San Andreas for 15 bucks. But who cares about someone getting a BIOS for the PS2? I bet even Sony doesn't mind. It's neglible, even if illegal on paper. I play SNES and GBA games on my PSP all day and I don't give two fucks about it. It's technically illegal, even though I do own the original games, but I still may not download them from the internet. But I couldn't care less. I want to play those games on the go!

Just let the people play on whatever platform they prefer. I don't have problems with people prefering PC with emulators, but I personally like it on Ps4 more.

That's such a weak argument, dude. It's like saying, who needs good graphics? How did you play video games back in the 90s? What do you mean you need a cell phone? How did you communicate with your friends 15 years ago? What do you mean you need wifi? And so on... Things change. Trophies/achievements are expected now for Ninty games on consoles. Hell even Steam has them, even Android games. 

Well they'll lose the money from people buying the games they're putting resources into upscaling to 1080p and adding trophy support to, since there is another way of doing this by reverse engineering the BIOS out of a PS2 for use in a program not created by Sony.

Anyway tagging this for a read about encouraging people to circumvent buying games from digital marketplaces, just to see if such a thread is fine on Vgchartz forums. Just interested to see.

Aye, it's just some people are probably reacting to the very first line of the OP.

My personal opinion. People make a stink about too damn much. Firstly, PS2 Emulation was confirmed less than a month before released. People are acting like they kept PS2 games for when PS4 emulation came. While in the past Sony kept saying they're not really looking into BC. Meaning you clearly bought those games, either to just have. To play on PS2 or PS3. PS4 came with a new option, a new coat etc. PSOne Classics are $5.99 to $9.99. PS2 classics are I believe $9.99 to $14.99. No one complained about those prices, which imo are great. PS4 releases PS2 games with enhancements, trophies and ALL the natural capibilities of the PS4 (Can't say for the PS3). For the same price range, Now all of a sudden it's to much, Sony's being money hungry etc. WTF is up with the nasty gaming community. A Company can't just get a "Good Job". Doing this same PS2 Emulation using a Disc would be ridiculously hard with trophies etc involved. It would be a mess. I own Dark Cloud on disc, and I proudly bought it and Rouge Galaxy on PS4. I own Dark Cloud 2 and I'll proudly rebuy it as well when released on PS4:)