Too bad out of the cute smart ass one liners none of you can fucking argue what I've just said, dumbasses. Tell me how its illegal or wrong to move data you already have on a cartridge to a game system through emulation is any different than doing it on an MP3 player with a CD?
Or even better, for the douches that ever taped or DVR or TiVO'ed a program, you're making a reporduction of the broadcast. Did you send expressed written consent to whatever sport/show you were watching to do that like the disclaimer goes? If not, then you're basically pirating TV shows or sports, taking away potential profits from a championship disc set or a Season DVD set right? Fucking hypocrites. 
The first scenario should fall under some reasonable fair use. The 2nd in your post above this one is fairly nebulous as it doesn't require the physical product to achieve the end result, just everyone playing by the honor system. I fail to see why this is even an issue for you given you don't own a Wii and it would be just as easy for people to dump/dl the roms to a PC based emu.
So the "honor system" is fine with taping or DVR'ing something on TV - but not fine if you were to download a game you already own to save you the hassle of moving the SAME EXACT DATA to the PC to play on an emulator?
Using DVR or taping something is basically the exact same thing as that. You're basically taking a source of data and copying it to a media which you aren't "authorized" to. Hell, even premium data at that usually (from a cable or PPV source.)
The difference is twofold here why its accepted even though its the same thing. Number one, getting that DVR or tape or whatever, there's not a product out on the market YET from that. You usually have to wait a few months for TV seasons, or even years or never for sports compilations to come out. Second, once the event happens on TV usually people watch it once to know what happens and then thats it. No one gives a fuck really about seeing Game 2 of the Finals over and over again, or seeing Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld when its on TV all the fucking time, nor is it worth anything to sell.
You're missing the point here. For those people who already own this stuff, why is it so wrong to either move it or get the same exact copy of it? It's the same data you already have, and in that aspect its actually LESS piracy than copying a broadcast.
I don't have a problem with buying a game I never owned. Hell, I can't even BE a ROM mongeror, I've been there and done that and tried it and its not for me, because that stuff tends to devalue the games themselves. I've had disc of ROM's before, and its a lot less appealing than people make it out to be. You just end up seeing this big list of games, trying a couple for a few minutes, and saying 'fuck it, who cares?' and playing something you already own.
Think, most people can mod a console pretty easily, and most people can just torrent anything they want if they know where to look, so with emulation you have basically every game ever released available to you if you wanted. Maybe some people can sit there and pirate every game and play a ton of them, but I have no desire to. When you have something available to you constantly, you become desensitized and don't even value it. I see no problem with playing games you already own though.
