The fact that companies are losing money is true. But losing how much money? The fact is that most people who play illegally games with emulators aren't the people who would buy the consoles & games. Thus Nintendo, Sony etc. don't really lose that much money with emulators, they only gain publicity by attacking emulators & rom sites. And actually emulators could even help the console companies, if they would realize their potential and maybe even sell roms to people (yes there are still a lot of us who get satisfaction from playing the game legally). I myself don't want to buy a console, because I would have to get a TV, and the consoles cannot be configured, and they don't have a nice keyboard. I could even buy roms for emulators if I would find a game which I would really like. Also the distribution cost for digital games is a lot cheaper than the manufacturing and shipping of cartridges.
Not to defend the article, but: "mysterious gene-sharing"? Bacteria have their own dna in strings, but they also have rings of dna, which they can copy to other bacteria. The penicillin resistance is in a form of one of these dna rings (sorry that I can't remember the scientific name for the ring). And that is how penicillin resistance can (and has) spread.
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The fact that companies are losing money is true. But losing how much money? The fact is that most people who play illegally games with emulators aren't the people who would buy the consoles & games. Thus Nintendo, Sony etc. don't really lose that much money with emulators, they only gain publicity by attacking emulators & rom sites. And actually emulators could even help the console companies, if they would realize their potential and maybe even sell roms to people (yes there are still a lot of us who get satisfaction from playing the game legally).
I myself don't want to buy a console, because I would have to get a TV, and the consoles cannot be configured, and they don't have a nice keyboard. I could even buy roms for emulators if I would find a game which I would really like. Also the distribution cost for digital games is a lot cheaper than the manufacturing and shipping of cartridges.
Not to defend the article, but: "mysterious gene-sharing"? Bacteria have their own dna in strings, but they also have rings of dna, which they can copy to other bacteria. The penicillin resistance is in a form of one of these dna rings (sorry that I can't remember the scientific name for the ring). And that is how penicillin resistance can (and has) spread.