Legally, emulators are legal but the ROMs you use on them are not. Can you play a game like Hardball 6 today on a Windows machine? Not really. You need DOSBox for that. DOSBox is an emulator. I feel it's a great thing that Emulators and ROMs exist. Some games you simply can't buy anymore (abandonware), and some games will never go on sale again because the company who owns the rights no longer exists. From a pure archival perspective, in my opinion I feel that emulators are good. They prevent us from losing games. Without emulation we'd have lost generations of games, and I've seen and read about companies who just sit on IPs instead of re-releasing them enough to know that if it weren't up to piracy/abandonware, we'd never see many titles again, ever. I have a personal rule when it comes to piracy which is why I'm not driven enough as an admin to go after people who pirate MVP. The game is 10 years old and it's no longer supported. EA has not made another PC baseball game since then and hasn't made another baseball video game period in about 7 years. The only time I would drop the hammer on members is if MVP was still an active series on PC, but it is not.