While an emulator does not infringe on copyright and is illegal per US court precedence, an emulator being available is a large part of what makes copyright infringement popular and as such it is related.

Adding in the DMCAs anti-circumvention provisions and the fact that you have to violate them to emulate a modern console, the whole thing becomes very nuanced and tightly linked to copyright infringement despite not directly infringing.

Explaining that emulators can be used in concert with copyright infringement does not explain what right a copyright holder has over emulators.

That merely explains why Nintendo doesn't like them, not why anyone should care that they don't like them.

Cars may be used to commit bank robberies, yet banks have no rights over cars.

> That merely explains why Nintendo doesn't like them, not why anyone should care that they don't like them

I don't think it has been tested in courts yet but the general idea is that you have to violate the DMCA to use a switch emulator, so people making switch emulators are making tools to help people circumvent the switch's copy protection.

Which is also a violation of the DMCA.

Like I said, it is nuanced.

It's more nuanced than this, because we need to acknowledge the real world and how those products are actually used.

> Cars may be used to commit bank robberies, yet banks have no rights over cars

Sure, but if said car had specific bank-robbing help built in, like say some magic device that immediately opens a bank safe, then the bank probably could sue.

>While an emulator does not infringe on copyright and is illegal per US court precedence

At least until Nintendo manages to overturn Sony v. Connectix, given recent SCOTUS trends.