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Posted September 28, 2011
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deelee74: if the bios is reverse engineered, or even completely made from scratch, the use of it to run the psx game on a system other than sony's playstation is not legal. seriously.
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StingingVelvet: Even if I grant you that... who gives a shit? If you own a playstation and you own the game, how could it possibly be immoral to play it on an emulator instead for a better experience?

Laws are not always the be all end all of morality. See: slavery.
I'm not saying I care. I'm just saying it's not legal. A lot of times, people point to Bleem to argue that it is legal. Bleem won a court case against sony for the emulator they sold in 1999. The courts said their PSX emulator for the PC and dreamcast was completely legal back in 1999, and they ruled in Bleem's favor on all counts.
But the DMCA has changed all of that. They would lose in court today.
Posted September 28, 2011
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deelee74: I'm not saying I care. I'm just saying it's not legal. A lot of times, people point to Bleem to argue that it is legal. Bleem won a court case against sony for the emulator they sold in 1999. The courts said their PSX emulator for the PC and dreamcast was completely legal back in 1999, and they ruled in Bleem's favor on all counts.
But the DMCA has changed all of that. They would lose in court today.
I think it would depend on the judge really, but eventually it will go to the supreme court and the supreme court love business, so I would guess they would back the DMCA.

In any case I agree it is probably illegal, but according to the DMCA so is modding a game without mod tools.
Posted September 28, 2011
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StingingVelvet: Even if I grant you that... who gives a shit? If you own a playstation and you own the game, how could it possibly be immoral to play it on an emulator instead for a better experience?

Laws are not always the be all end all of morality. See: slavery.
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deelee74: I'm not saying I care. I'm just saying it's not legal. A lot of times, people point to Bleem to argue that it is legal. Bleem won a court case against sony for the emulator they sold in 1999. The courts said their PSX emulator for the PC and dreamcast was completely legal back in 1999, and they ruled in Bleem's favor on all counts.
But the DMCA has changed all of that. They would lose in court today.
Actually according to the DMCA a clean room reverse engineering of the BIOS is legal. Now where they may run into issues is if they tried to profit from it through sales.
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