• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    Certainly not. But with Vimm’s lair you could argue that it’s definetly illegal, while emulation is generally considered legal.

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      2 months ago

      There’s tons of illegal things that people do every single day that the law turns a blind eye to because reality is complicated. Piracy of games not being sold by the company anymore is certainly by-the-books illegal, but everyone obviously recognizes that it’s an entirely harmless “crime”. Like smoking weed in illegal states. Everyone knows it’s bullshit, so if you defend locking people up for a few grams of weed you’re a bootlicker.