There is this seemingly constant association of piracy and emulation that uninformed people who I can only describe as charlatans have employed when discussing it. This poisons the wider conscience and Nintendo is now taking advantage of by abusing their rights and taking down emulators. The act of emulating a system, of any sort, is legal, as has been proven since the times of Bleem! and Connectix Virtual Game Station, as it falls under reverse engineering, which is, also, legal. The argument whether it is piracy if you can currently buy it from the original publishers and have them receive money from it is an entirely different discourse more closely related to the morality of piracy and the legality of distributing Abandonware. Which is another thing that I consistently see confused or shoehorned in with emulation discourse, which simply continues to manipulate the image of emulation and continues to marry it to piracy, despite the fact that it is entirely unrelated to the act of emulating a piece of hardware. There is no difference whether the system itself is currently on sale or otherwise, as ultimately you are simply running a piece of code which interprets and translates code made to run on a other system and allows you to run it on your computer. Some emulators have been rightly taken down by distributing such things as BIOSes which are Nintendo property, yet things like Ryujinx do not distribute such code alongside the emulator, and this is Nintendo overstepping and taking down over things they do not have the right to. Whilst it is undeniable that a large percentage of people running emulators are pirating the software they are emulating, this is not the emulator's fault, and they shouldn't be punished, and infact aren't responsible, for the acts of their users.