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Originally Posted by quzar
how about the copyright to the phrase "PSP", even the "intellectual concept" behind it.... it's not even possible to argue it as a grey-area.
it would be a piece of piss for Sony to shut down such an emualtor in a court-of-law, even without providing firmware files and you know it. thinking otherwise i would suggest you were deliberatly being naieve.
No, it wouldn't. There is absolutely nothing wrong with commercial emulation w/o permission from the creator of the hardware. Hell, the only way that nintendo was able to shut down the gba emulator for the tapwave (that was going to be sold with it) was that they had patented something to do with gb emulation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hungry Horace
Now, that being said, I'm sure sony COULD somehow shut it down, but it wouldn't be due to it being illegal, it would probably end up as a civil suit of some sort with BS terms not intended for sony to win but simply cost the author a lot of money in legal defense.
I'll beta test !!!!
I think that there are 3 differents point of view regarding a psp-emulator:Quote:
Originally Posted by S!ms
-devs:"Wonderful, with this thing, I'll be able to create better homebrew than ever, because i will take no risk for developing homebrews that the whole community will enjoy safely! besides it makes me gain a lot of time (time that I'll then be able to share with my beloved girlfriend)"
-member of the community (light side):
"whoa! with this thing, I'll be able to test every piece of homebrew before puting it in my real psp, thus I will never take the risk to brick my beloved psp; I will not be scared any more by Warning: New PSP Virus on the Loose! Be Aware!!! kind of news.
And I'm happy to know that the devs can spend more time with their girlfriend! What a wonderful world!!"
-member of the community or not (dark side):
"Hehehe...what another nice way play pirated games!! the emulator isn't released yet but the first thing we know (thanks to the screenshots) is the fact that it runs ISO perfectly (no apparent graphical glitch but slow).Over five screenshots that has been made to describe the capacity of the emulator, 3 of them represent an official game...It seems to have been made for piracy!"
But there is one thing that everyone think about:
It's too good to be real...and it's easy to make fake... And last but not least:If there is no release there is no way to prove either it is real or not!
Now I think that everyone has a little of the 3 points of view but according to what we have of the emulator for the moment, which point of view will win...
I don't support piracy myself, and I had no meaning to make this for pirates. They have to know what to do with it, and i can't block it to refuse 'pirated' iso's, because there's no difference :)
Its alwaysthe same, when someone releases pics of something major, the "too good to be true" phrase gets used alot.
I've learned not to dispute over stuff likes this, it gets us nowhere, lets just wait and see.
You can make the devs point of view or the light side win, it's up to you!
Think about the moment of bliss the devs will share with their girlfriend...they don't have that much time...don't you think it worth it ?
He forgot the dark side of the light side: If this comes out, WE'LL spend less time with our girlfriends :PQuote:
Originally Posted by toto
No offense, S!ms, but this is clearly a fake.
but the light side of the dark side of the light side:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloudhunter
we will lend our psp to our girlfriend so that we can play against her from the computer ;)