Making emulators illegal is like making butterknives illegal because somebody might use one as a screwdriver.<p>It's fun to figure out how to emulate in software a million abstractions away an actual physical chip. It's fun to see what could have been done if the game makers of yesterday had the technology of today, the raw hardware to work on.<p>Making emulators illegal makes fun illegal
What's bothersome here is that many of these platforms are left to rot where the IP holder makes no money off of them anyway. That's not to say that the tech copyright law should be different than say literature, but when books go out of print people do photocopy or scan them to keep them available and publishers don't go after Xerox. It will be interesting to see the outcome here, but I don't have high hopes considering the track record of corporate funded legal teams and general lack of government tech savvy.