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Originally Posted by bingle
This is incorrect. An emulator, in and of itself, is not illegal. The process of creating the emulator may be illegal (stealing trade secrets or more recently breaking DMCA-protected encryption) and the process of using an emulator may be illegal (using a pirated copy of OSX or Windows is just as illegal whether you do it on an emulator or hardware). You can download an emulator, and buy an OS for it (or legally download older OSes... this used to be possible with Mac OS 7, I think? You could also run FreeDOS or Linux or something on a PC emulator).
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Like I said,
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The user who copies the MacOS ROM and installs Mac OS X on a non-Apple-branded computer is committing a violation of law. By enabling users to violate the End User License Agreement, PearPC violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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It's very simple. The user violates the End User License Agreement, and the emulator gets in trouble for enabling the license agreement, as it is illegal in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (
www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf). I don't know how else I can word this.
[QUOTE=bingle]The only dangerous area is that emulators will require some form of ROM to run. Most emulators I have seen do not distribute the ROM files, as they are (all, I think?) copyrighted software and that would be illegal. You can (I believe) legally extract a ROM from a machine you own and use that to run your emulator, but obviously most users do not do this, they download an illegal copy of the ROM and use that. But again, this has nothing to do with the legality of emulation.
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I don't know what you're seeing, but all 3 emulators I've used require the ROM. Both Mac emulators (I only know of 2 currently) require the ROM, so they are breaking the law.
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Originally Posted by Pragma
There isn't a single law on earth preventing you from using Kazaa. Now, if you use Kazaa for the purposes of copyright infringement, you can be sued. Entirely different from being illegal to use Kazaa.
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It's the same thing. Enabling certian illegal computer acts is illegal in and of itself. Kazaa and other p2p networks are enabeling illegal copyright acts to be carried out. A Los Angeles federal judge ruled that record companies and movie studios can proceed with a lawsuit against the parent company of Kazaa.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-980274.html?tag=fd_top
I missspoke (or mistyped if you will) when I said it was illegal to use Kazaa. If there was a p2p that happened to only have illegal materials, then the comparison would be apt. I assumed that all the materials on Kazaa were illegal. I suppose it's possible that at least one file on Kazaa is not copywritten or registered legally.