I don’t see the “clear acknowledgement that emulation … has done irreparable damage to the intellectual property rights of game developers”. Cifaldi is arguing

I don’t see the “clear acknowledgement that emulation … has done irreparable damage to the intellectual property rights of game developers”. Cifaldi is arguing that _because_ emulation was not better supported, users had no choice but to pirate the games they wanted to play. He’s asking game developers to provide a convenient and legal way to play the games, and predicting that will reduce piracy. I tend to agree with the argument. Between buying copies for friends and getting new versions, I’ve orchard age of empires at least 10 different times on steam. But before it was available on steam, I absolutely was pirating it (please don’t hurt me FBI). Pirating is annoying, I don’t want to deal with sketchy websites, I just want the game. Of course that’s just one datapoint