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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
While a N spokes(wo)man might say emulators promote piracy, piracy isn't the main usage of an emulator.
Yes it is, no doubt here.
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Just because you can play pirated games on an emulator that doesn't mean the guy who wrote it wanted you to do that, just like the GBA can play imported games but N doesn't want you to import them.
So guys who make emulators for systems out right now, don't want you to play any games on it?- which is the only way you wouldn't be pirating...
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Just because it is possible to do something that doesn't have to be its main usage. I can club somebody to death with my PC, does that mean the PC is intended to be used for that? Naah, the large case is there because the cooler clipped into the PSU, not because I'm planning to kill people. You can outlaw emulators taking all legitimate users' freedoms away or you can just outlaw its illegitimate uses.
Horrible analogy of your PC being for clubbing people to death as a reason why someone might use it. There are not legitimate users of emulators, especially emulators of this generation of consoles. You cannot just outlaw emulators illegitimate uses, the only way to do that is outlaw emulators entirely, so you're contradicting yourself.
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This was possible via the DMCA, which was brought to us by the RIAA/MPAA (which I therefore call "suit terrorists", as they hate our freedoms). The very same DMCA could make it illegal to read a Word document (by any author) without Microsoft's consent.
They don't "hate" our freedoms like terrorists do, they hate illegal use. The analogy of the Word document is horrible, Microsoft licenses everyone who owns MWord to use it.
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Some judges might let you off the hook for minor offenses (like playing a legally owned game with an emulator) if they accept you didn't know this wasn't legal.
For someone to not realize this isn't legal is just ridiculous. It's so obvious.
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The stop sign analogy doesn't work because A: If you don't know what a stop sign means you don't have a driver's licence
Driver's licenses are issued every four years, if someone was in a coma or if someone develops alzheimers in this time and then returns to driving and don't know to stop, they're still breaking the law.
mouseclicker wrote: Are you sure? Do you know how much cars sell? And if it's such a small number, why are they making a bigger case out of car theft than piracy, which is supposedly taking a much larger percentage? They have entire police units whose sole job is to hunt down stolen cars, yet piracy still goes unpunished, even when apparently it's more threatening to it's industry.
I respond: According to data from the National Automobile Dealers Assn., total dealership revenue last year was $679 billion. They're making such a case because of all the people who report their cars stolen every year, and the related issue with Insurance companies who cover those owners. (the cars stolen are years old and not worth as much as brand new cars, that's why $9 billion sounds low, but in actuality it's alot more cars stolen than if they were worth as much as new cars) AND Piracy DOES NOT GO UNPUNISHED, the guy who developed Napster now owes millions of dollars.
and you claim you don't own 1 cd with 15 songs or less on it, whatever.... the majority of albums out have less than 16 songs on them.
Now to back up Evilnate's point of: On the other hand, the sole source of income for companies producing games, CDs or DVDs is the direct sale to consumers of their products.
me: Exactly! Do you want games to start having commercials and advertising in them other than a company's name/logo on a texture (think GTurismo3) because of Piracy?
I don't think so, since you guys bitch about having a pop up window show up when you access a site...
as far as music artists and $, it's not their fault it is the record COMPANIES fault, not only do record companies screw us over, they screw over music artists.
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