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Originally Posted by willravel
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. |
Err. I think you have a gross misunderstanding of the law, actually. Emulators are not illegal. Using one CAN be illegal, but luckily the US hasn't gone so far as to outlaw anything that can be used illegally.
In fact, this was tested in court a little while ago - When Bleem came out with their PlayStation emulator for Dreamcast and PC, Sony sued. Bleem won in the end, but spent so much money that they went bankrupt... But anyway, it's legal to reverse-engineer a hardware platform for emulation.
Think about it. Apple is one of the most litigous companies around. PearPC is hosted on SourceForge, with the blessing of OSDN. The developers' names and contact information are somewhat freely available. If there were ANY legal standing for suing them, Apple would be all over it. They sue everyone they possibly can :-)
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