Mozza
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Game preservation is another excuse to defend the pirates running illegal copies on these emulators, like many say, the emulators are in themselves not illegal, but there are not many ways to use them, or indeed the way they are being used in the majority, that is legal.that's not the point. you literally can't buy a gamecube game anymore that would in any way directly benefit Nintendo.
and the older the hardware, and the rarer the game, the worse this gets, where the only legal way of getting a copy is by paying inflated collector item prices, all of which the rights holder doesn't benefit from in any way
But like I have said in many comments, I am not here to demonize anybody pirating games, or take the moral high ground, as we never know the full circumstances of the individuals doing this.
But I do feel we need to stop suggesting these emulators are totally innocent, and call this out for what it is in the vast majority, a way of stealing IP's and pirating games.. and stop all the mental gymnastics employed to it's defense.
Let's just admit to what it is, and judge weather or not we agree on a personal level.