Throughout the Internet there are programs that are distributed
on various sites. They are known as Emulators. Emulators are
programs that are designed to play hacked games known as ROMS.
These Emulators play Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and
other platforms like it, except they are free. This distribution
of Emulators and ROMS is illegal. They, in the course of time, can rip
off the gaming industry of Nintendo and SEGA and other vast gaming
corporations in the range of millions of dollars.
These Emulators are freely distributed for your computer and are easily located
on search engines throughout the Internet. One would say that no one is stopping
the distribution, and the government does not have enough power
on regulate throughout all sites. I do not think that they realize the
magnitude of Emulators, however.
One reason government officials may not take them seriously is because emulators have descriptive tags saying, "24-hour evaluation,"
which shrouds the truth about emulators. The fact that they are illegal
and predominant on the net is of little consequence to the common Internet surfer. The government may never win.
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