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It's funny, the game companies lost the emulator court cases. But the companies behind those emulators still went out of business.



Right. What I hate about copyright is that winning a copyright infringement lawsuit with a fair use defense (fair use being by definition not infringement [1]) will still bankrupt you because of the legal fees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp.#...




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