Morals, ethics, and economics of emulators. Are they legal?
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An emulator is a program (or system) that makes it look like you are doing something else. Running a city, flying a plane, building a restaurant, whatever.\n\nAre they legal? Yes. Protected under the 1st Amendment in the US. Unless they reveal classified information, or contain obscenity, or are harmful to minors -- standard exceptions.\n\nMorality and ethics are based on culture and belief systems. What's ethical and moral (or not) to a group of Southern Baptists or Quakers is going to be very different from what is ethical or moral to a group of agnostic Engineering Graduate students at MIT. Each culture has its own set of rules for ethics and morals.\n\nIt sounds like you're trying to ask whether emulators should be legal if they allow bad people to practice doing bad things, regardless of whether the emulators can also be used as games by other people. \n\nAs far as laws, that's a simple question. They are legal, unless they fall within one of the narrow exceptions above, because of the 1st Amendment. As far as morality, that's a personal opinion and you are free to express that opinion to anyone who will listen, also guaranteed by the 1st Amendment.
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Well I do online gaming using servers that utilize Punkbuster, which bans not only cheating or hacking players, but their hardware as well. Hackers have found a way around this by using hard drive spoofer and IP spoofer hack programs, which generate new hd serials and IP addresses. So yes, it is to be assumed that those programs can be used for that as well. The hacked programs are rather easy to find as well.
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Hiya,\n\nThis file seems to be pretty safe - linked to the game known as "Trijinx" that can be played on the internet.\n\nHere's some detailed information on this file from Prevx:\nhttp://fileinfo.prevx.com/spyware/qqd75811560452-trij7045154/trijinx.1.0.0.55.dll.html
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What  is an emphulation?
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So what you're telling us is that you're gonna violate copyright laws and send an illegal copy of the program to people so that they can get arrested for software piracy. Is that right?\n\nNo thanks
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there are quite a few, however, some of the newer games don't allow you to use that kind of software mainly because it can also be used to set up pirate copies.\n\nA very popular application is "Alcohol 120%" (you can make images of cd's and also load them), but try to see if the game you are trying to play doesn't have some emulation protection so you don't blow your money away for nothing. That would be my recomandation.\n\nYou can also use Daemon Tools, but you can't make image files with it. Try also CloneCD... \nEven Nero has some sort of mechanism for a virtual drive and images, but I don't remember if it required the image file to be created with Nero and have a specific format or not... and since it comes bundled with a few CD/DVD writers it may be a good choice.
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Definitely find some Emulators\n\nThese programs play 1,000 of NES SNES, Gameboy, Sega, etc. Games. It's illegal but you can find them for free.\nTechnically it is not illegal if you own the game, so I hear\n\nDo you have itunes?\n\nI love LIMEWIRE, but for some reason everyone I know has trouble managing it. Just go into the preferences and lower some of the download/upload rules if you have a old computer. Don't download questionable material. It isn't that hard.\n\n\nGOOGLE EARTH RULES!
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try roms.com my son used that to d/l roms for his emulators he had on the comp
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There is software, unfortunately possesing and using it is a crime. I have it, but of course I never use it.
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go to http://www.zophar.net/ they have all kind of emulators for all kind of operating systems :)
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That would be illegal. The following sites may help you in getting freeware games:\n\n(1) http://www.game-revolution.com/\n(2) http://www.gamearchives.com/\n(3) http://www.gamezone.com/\n(4) http://www.gamethat.com/\n(5) http://www.amazedgames.com/\n(6) http://www.winpcgames.com/\n(7) http://www.games32best.com/\n(8) http://www.hotgamedownloads.com/\n(9) http://www.download-game-demo.com/
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I don't see where it is a bit illegal for you to make the image as long as you aren't redistributing or reselling copies of the game for profit and gain. That is the copywrite act you hear everyone screaming about. As long as you only copy it for yourself to load up with a virtual drive or something like that to keep the game cd in good condition nobody would ever know unless you tell them.
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using priated software is crime.\nnot reporting this crime is also a crime.\nu can contact cyber police station\nor the software vendor itself.
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Hmmm, to support pirates or artists? Quite the quandary. Should one support the owners of Intellectual Property? Or the theives who have stolen it? To purchase through legal or illegal channels?\n\nI honestly have no idea what the implied second side might be.\n\nBuy originals and only originals. Purchasing pirated CDs, DVDs, bedlinen, whatever, is not only stealing from the legitimate owners of the IP, but is supporting the careers of the scum who steal it.
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Well it's not a legal way too but I recommend downloading\n\nAzureus from Sourceforge (see sources) and searching for it on Mininova (see sources)
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A video game reseller, or eBay...