Nearly anything can be used illegally nowadays, however that doesn't make them or their intended uses any less legal, emulation has always been about preservation of hardware and games for future generations. The developers and staff on various legit/legal emulation forums (not these so called rip off warez emulation forums) have always encouraged users to legally dump their games and offer no support to suspected or known pirates. Emulation is legal according to the US Supreme Court, corporations such as Sony have lost numerous battles against emulation, even against commercial emulators such as Connectix and Bleem for instance.
Issue a polite response explaining why emulation isn't illegal and link them to the following:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njtip/v2/n2/3/
Nintendo and other companies can state anything they want in their EULA's, however that doesn't make it legally binding especially when even the courts have ruled in favor of emulation on numerous occasions. EULA's are not a legally binding document, until the contents are contested in a court of law and ruled in favor of the company or corporation that published the EULA. Nintendo always stated that emulation was illegal in their EULA for a while despite this not being true, they later changed this to state that downloading games over the internet is illegal regardless of ownership, even if you own the game.
So in the end, what are people going to do when the actual hardware and games no longer exist and they want to relive a piece of classic history?
I got into the same thing with the folks at Destructoid a while back, and by the way Jim Sterling is an utterly retarded douchbag that deserves to be fucked over in every possible way imaginable to the human mind.
Issue a polite response explaining why emulation isn't illegal and link them to the following:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njtip/v2/n2/3/
Nintendo and other companies can state anything they want in their EULA's, however that doesn't make it legally binding especially when even the courts have ruled in favor of emulation on numerous occasions. EULA's are not a legally binding document, until the contents are contested in a court of law and ruled in favor of the company or corporation that published the EULA. Nintendo always stated that emulation was illegal in their EULA for a while despite this not being true, they later changed this to state that downloading games over the internet is illegal regardless of ownership, even if you own the game.
So in the end, what are people going to do when the actual hardware and games no longer exist and they want to relive a piece of classic history?
I got into the same thing with the folks at Destructoid a while back, and by the way Jim Sterling is an utterly retarded douchbag that deserves to be fucked over in every possible way imaginable to the human mind.