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How dangerous this kind of stuff is also depends on where you live. So for me, living in Switzerland, the authorities have more or less stated that chasing pirates is too much of a hassle, ineffective and a waste of resources, and hence they've decided to not give a shit.

The result is that people in Switzerland can pretty much do whatever the fuck they want with impunity (for now). Some countries also have gaps in their laws, so downloading may be legal, while uploading is illegal. Note that this means that torrents are still illegal, as you are both an up- and downloader! So my advice would be to find out what exactly the actual laws in your country are, as well as studying whether people have been convicted in the past, and what happened to them. As people have stated, actually publishing something on a site is far, far riskier than merely downloading something.

CoolROM.com's game information and ROM (ISO) download page for Suikoden II (Sony Playstation).

And has been stated, The Escapist does NOT promote piracy or illegal activity of any kind. Tread with caution if you value your forum health! Legal elements of emulating games: - the emulator itself isn't illegal.

You can download them everywhere - buy the game on ebay, now you can put it into your DVD/CD-Rom drive! Illegal element of emulators: Getting the console's BIOS. If you get caught downloading this you gonna have to pay a fine. Nowadays you don't have to use emulators anymore.

Simply buy a cheap PS3 or Wii or whatever. They have most of the old and important games on their stores. This pretty much seals the deal for not even thinking of trying this. To be honest I sometimes browsed 4chan and noticed people mention emulating with impunity and thought it'd be fine, but I'm certain now its not. Escapist is reliable for advice in this regard.

I assume that they just go after the contributor of ROMs/ISOs rather than the clients. Videogames just doesn't look as major as film releases where the worldwide market is much more restricted. Some are just more vigilant about it than others like Warner Brothers or Sony. Films are much more larger than Videogames so a lot more people would probably torrent it; however each person who downloads a torrent also adds seeds for other people to download said data, so it's not just 1 person pirating but also the piraters are sharing with the others.

So you probably won't see people getting arrested and made example of just for downloading something like Super Mario Bros. But you would see large extensive cases taken against people for sharing early airings of movies or non-sharable source codes. Also stuff like 'Piracy is legal if you own the game in real life' or 'you won't get arrested if you delete it after downloading it for a day' wouldn't really be defensive, however copying stuff for personal use may be legal in some places, though there'd be conflicting stuff about bypassing console locks or reverse engineering consoles for PCs since there's probably something illegal in how the copiers were made. Note, im not supporting piracy. But i support the online aspect, you could probably download demos from console markets or download freeware stuff like the Original Cave Story or Spelunky classic, seems to be the trend these days that solodevs releases a game, then gets picked up. Same with Minecraft. Watchguard feature key keygen free download.